World War IIMT Lise
MT Lise was on a journey in ballast headed for Curacao. On the 12th of May 1942, the ship was set ablaze by gunfire and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-69 just 95 nautical miles north of Bonaire. MT Lise fired back on the submarine with their own cannons and Hotchkiss machine guns. 12 men were killed around the ship’s cannon platform at the aft. The flames rose to the skies, and the situation became hopeless. The jig was lowered into the water with 6 men aboard. There was also a lifeboat with eight passengers on the water. This lifeboat arrived in Carizzal, Colombia on the 15th of May. The jig and its passengers found a raft with eight survivors. Both the passengers of the jig and the raft drew straws for which eight would stay behind on the raft while the jig set sail for the shore. On the 13th of May, the jig saw land by Curacao. A Dutch whaler rescued the passengers of the jig and an airplane was given the mission to find the raft with the rest of the survivors. The five men aboard the raft drifted around in the ocean for 20 days until they were rescued. A while later 10 of the survivors experienced yet another torpedo attack. These 10 survivors were aboard a Dutch passenger ship named Crijnssen which was torpedoed in the Straits of Yucatan on the 10th of June. The survivors were rescued by the American ore ship Lebore. At the 14th of June 1942, was Lebore also torpedoed. The survivors once again survived the attack which was the third attack in just one month.
About MT Lise
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Nationality
Norway
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Built
1931
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Wrecked
12.05.1942
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Carrier
S. Holter-Sørensen, Oslo
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Tonnage
10575 dvt
