On This Day (18th May) – WW2 Shipwreckollections
Posted: 18 May 2016
Posted In: Shipwreckollections
SS Piako (1920-1941)
SS Piako was a British Refrigerated Cargo Liner of 8,283 tonnes, built in 1920 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow. She was powered by a two stage steam turbines of high and low pressure giving 13 knots.
On the 18th May 1941 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-107, west of Monrovia. She was on passage from Albany to Freetown and Liverpool with refrigerated and general cargo. Ten of her crew were lost.
The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society provided the survivors with £129/6s worth of financial support – the equivalent of £6,518 today.
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