Eckernförde (Denmark: Egernførde, Egernfjord, Lower Saxony: Eckernför, Eckernföör) is a municipality in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, located in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district. The city has 21,784 inhabitants. From this town there are several traditional sailing ships. The ships sail from Denmark, Kiel and Rostock to Denmark. Media files 54° 28′ NB, 09° 50′ OL in SC-122, on the way from Pepel - Curaçao - Halifax, to Middlesbrough. Her load was 7,100 tonnes of iron ore.
At 23.09 pm on March 17, 1943, the U-305 of Rudolf Bahr fired a shotgun from two torpedoes to convoy SC-122, southeast of Cape Farewell and hit Port Auckland in column post 93 and the Zouave in column post 84, at almost the same time. The Zoauve with captain William Hunter Cambridge as captain was severely hit and sank within five minutes to the seabed in 52 ° 25 'N and 30 ° 15' W. One of the reasons for the rapid downfall was the heavy load iron ore that loaded the ship.
Twelve crew members and one artiller of the Zouave went down with the ship. Captain Cambridge, 24 crew members and five artillers were picked up by HMS Godetia (K 226) (Lt. M.A.F. Larose, RNR) and brought the Zoauve crew to Gourock, Scotland. Externe link
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