ETTRICK

ETTRICK MV was a British Passenger Motor Vessel of 11,279 tons built in 1938 by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow, Yard No 669 for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was powered by two five cylinder Doxford~type opposed piston 2SCSA oil engines, diesels, twin screw, giving 20 knots. Engines by the shipbuilders. The Vessel Was On Charter to the Admiralty as a Troopship. On the 15th November 1942 she was torpedoed by German submarine U-155 at 0315, (80 kilometres south of Faro, Portugal).. She sank at 0836. She was on a voyage from Gibraltar to the Clyde in ballast, with a crew of 204, 66 naval ratings, and 41 gunners. 18 naval ratings and 5 Asian crew were lost; another Asian seaman died of his injuries. Survivors were taken to Gibraltar by the Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Glaisdal e (L44) and returned to the Uk in P&O´s Mooltan the following day