Pinto (MV)

Name: Pinto (MV)
Address: IE

Motor Boat in Ireland, dating from 1944

UKHO Wreck No.006000526. 1346-ton British motor vessel built in 1928 by Harland and Wolff and was owned by MacAndrews & Co. Powered by triple expansion engines, measured L.270 x B.39 x D.16ft. En route from Halifax to Greenock, acting as a convoy escort for convoy HXF-305 (almost 100 ships). Torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine U-482 while rescuing survivors from the Empire Heritage which was also sunk by the U-482 with the loss of 113 men. The Pinto carried 62 crew of which 21 died during

Type:: Motor Boat
Period:: 1944
Coordinates:: 55.54°N, 7.72°W

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