Hull#

Name

Built

Service

Owner

F 94

Salopian

1926

1939-40

Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool

In Sep, 1939 the motor passenger ship Shropshire of the Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant cruiser HMS Salopian.

On 13th May 1941 she was torpedoed by U-98 when 300 off Greenland, southeast of Cape Farewell. The first three torpedoes fired by U-98 missed but two of the next spread and three of a third spread hit the ship. In all it took eight torpedoes to sink her. (Planquadrat AJ 38)