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{{Short description|Merchant ship}}
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|Ship country=Denmark
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|Ship name=SS ''Flynderborg''
|Ship operator=C.K. Hansen, [[Copenhagen]]
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|Ship builder=[[William Gray & Company|W. Gray & Co Ltd]], [[West Hartlepool]] 
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|Ship launched=29 April 1930
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|Ship name=SS ''Flynderborg''
|Ship operator=	Hall Brothers, [[Newcastle-upon-Tyne]] 
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|Ship fate=Sunk on 3 November 1941 
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|Ship class= Steam merchant ship
|Ship tonnage=2,022 tons
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The '''SS ''Flynderborg''''' was a [[Denmark|Danish]] steam merchant ship.  She was taken over after the [[German invasion of Denmark (1940)|fall of Denmark]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]], and sailed under the British flag.  She sailed in a number of convoys before being sunk whilst carrying supplies to the UK in 1941.

==Early career==
''Flynderborg'' was built by [[William Gray & Company|W. Gray & Co Ltd]], of [[West Hartlepool]] in 1930 for the Danish firm C.K. Hansen, of [[Copenhagen]].  After the German invasion of Denmark in 1940 she was seized by the British on 22 August and transferred to the Ministry of War Transport.  She retained her original name but was operated for the Ministry by Hall Brothers, of [[Newcastle upon Tyne]].  She served in a number of convoys, initially between UK ports, but then moved to transatlantic crossings.  She was part of the ill-fated [[convoy SC 7]], but was one of the few merchants to safely reach port in the UK.

==Sinking==
She continued to take part in the convoys.  Her last one was with [[convoy SC 52]] under the command of her master P. Petersen. She arrived at the assembly point at [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]] from [[Parrsboro, Nova Scotia]], sailing from Sydney on 29 October 1941 bound for [[London]] with a cargo of 2,125 tons of lumber. During the crossing the convoy was sighted northeast of [[Notre Dame Bay]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] by {{GS|U-202||2}} on 3 November.  She launched a number of [[torpedo]]es at 04.54, 04.58 and 05:05 hours, and observed hits on two ships and heard a third strike a target. ''Flynderborg'' and {{SS|Gretavale||2}} had been hit and sunk. ''U-202'' went on to sink a capsized wreck with a coup de grâce at 08:44 hours, which may have been either ''Flynderborg'' or ''Gretavale''.  Three crew members were lost with ''Flynderborg'' whilst the master, 18 crew members and two gunners were picked up by the {{sclass2|Flower|corvette}} {{HMCS|Windflower|K155|6}} and were landed at [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]].

==References==
*[http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/1194.html SS Flynderborg at Uboat.net]
*[http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/hague/index.html Flynderborg at convoy web]

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[[Category:Merchant ships of Denmark]]
[[Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II]]
[[Category:Steamships]]
[[Category:Ships built on the River Tees]]
[[Category:World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean]]
[[Category:1930 ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in November 1941]]