British Steam tug |Completed||1938 - Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby|
|Owner||Overseas Towage & Salvage Co Ltd, London| |Date of
attack||13 Sep 1939||Nationality: British| |Fate||Sunk by U-29
(Otto Schuhart)| |Position||49.20N, 14.40W - Grid BE 3471|
|Complement||21 (0 dead and 21 survivors).| |Route||Falmouth (12
Sep) - salvage work| |History||Completed in August 1938 | |Notes
on loss| At 15.30 hours on 13 Sep, 1939, U-29 tried to stop the
unescorted Neptunia (Master Joseph Cordery) about 270 miles
west-southwest of Cape Clear by a shot across her bow, but the
tug did not stop and used its radio. She was en route to assist
HMS Walker (D 27) (Cdr W.J.C. Robertson, RN), which had been
badly damaged in a collision with HMS Vanquisher (D 54) (LtCdr
K.H. Fraser, RN) while escorting the convoy OB-2 southwest of
Ireland on 11 September. After the first hits, the crew
immediately abandoned ship in a motor boat. The Germans
questioned the master and then sent the boat with a boarding
party to the ship. However, the U-boat