On This Day (26th January) – WW2 Shipwreckollections

SS Samouri (1943-1944)

The SS Samouri was a British cargo ship of 7, 219 tons, which, whilst on route from Bombay to Aden and New York, was torpedoed by U-188 and sunk in the Arabian Sea on January 26, 1944.

When the survivors arrived back in the UK, the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society provided 21 of them with £186/9s worth of financial support, which is the equivalent of £7,604.04 in today’s money.

Picture: U-188 taking supplies from U-155, courtesy of seawhiff.com