A SHIP SUNK BY UBOAT U96, SS Sirikishna, RARE 8MM HOME Movie Film Reel B823 For Sale

Here is aVintage Home Movie Film Reel
Please note that the film is in very poor condition for its age. It has lost color, which was very limited as its the first type of Kodak Kodachrome. Many scenes are blank or ghost like. Others including the ships are blurry and barely watchable. I am putting this out there in hopes that someone who lost a family on the ship or those interest in U96 and World War Two may be putting together something regarding the two or three seconds of the ship named the SS Sirikishna, which is shown in the first three photos. The ship was filmed near Quebec City. Please note that this is a full reel that is approximately three inches in diameter. Full reels typically have a run time of about 3 minutes, give or take. Speed and run time results will vary by the setting and frames per second selected. Please see my other sales and thank you for looking!SS Sirikishna was a steam merchant ship completed in 1936 for Christian Salvesen & Co Edinburgh. At 0220 hours on 24 February 1941 the Sirikishna (master Robert Paterson), dispersed from the convoy OB288, was hit on the port side amidships by one torpedo from U-96 (captained by Heinrich Lehmann–Willenbrock) south of Iceland and was abandoned by the crew. The U-boat first had to load a torpedo from an upper deck container into the boat because all other torpedoes had been spent. At 0836 hours, a coup de grace was fired that hit amidships and caused the ship to sink rapidly after breaking in two. She was the ship of Convoy Commodore Rear Admiral R A A Plowden, DSO. The master, the commodore, five Naval staff members, 34 crew members and two gunners were lost. Two of the crew were Cornish men - Benjamin Maxwell Avery from Connor Downs near Hayle and the other one was Frank Williams from Falmouth.
German submarine U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during World War II. It was made famous after the war in Lothar-Günther Buchheim\'s 1973 bestselling novel Das Boot and the 1981 Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the same name, both based on his experience on the submarine as a war correspondent in 1941.
Third patrolOn 30 January 1941, U-96 left Lorient for her third war patrol in the North Atlantic. Two weeks into the patrol, she sighted a straggler from convoy HX 106 s, the British motor tanker Clea. The U-boat attacked shortly after 15:00 with a single torpedo, which hit Clea amidships, snapping her in half and setting the wreck on fire. The two halves were then sunk with artillery.[14] Later the same day, another tanker, Arthur F. Corwin, of 10,516 GRT, was sighted. The tanker had already been hit by torpedoes from U-103, and was lagging behind the same convoy as Clea. U-96 launched two more torpedoes into the burning wreck, sinking her in position 60°25′N 17°11′W. [15] All 59 crew members perished in the attack. In the morning, escorts of HX 106 spotted and attacked U-96 with four depth charges, but the U-boat escaped without damage.
At 02:27 on 18 February, the British Black Osprey of 5,589 GRT, part of HX 107 s, was attacked with a torpedo. A second torpedo sank the ship twelve minutes later.[16] Black Osprey\'s crew of 36 abandoned ship in heavy weather, however, only eleven survivors were picked up two days later.
On 21 February a Focke Wulf \"Condor\" of I./KG 40 attacked and damaged a straggler from convoy OB 287, the 6,999 GRT Scottish Standard, killing five of her crew. The crew abandoned ship and 39 survivors were picked up by an escort, HMS Montgomery. On the next day, 22 February, U-96 came upon the abandoned tanker. Although there was a destroyer patrolling the area, U-96 was able to launch two torpedoes, sinking Scottish Standard in position 59°20′N 16°12′W.[17] Following the second explosion, HMS Montgomery pursued the U-boat for five hours, dropping 37 depth charges without causing serious damage.
On 23 February 1941, U-96 made contact with convoy OB 288, and proceeded to attack in conjunction with U-69, U-73, U-95, and U-107 as well as the Italian submarine Michele Bianchi. The U-boats sank nine ships, including one escort, three of which were claimed by U-96.
The first, the British 5,457 GRT cargo ship Anglo-Peruvian, was mistaken for an auxiliary cruiser and attacked with two torpedoes at 23:27. The ship sank within three minutes after being hit[19] with the loss of 29 of her crew in position 59°30′N 21°00′W. The 17 survivors were later picked up by a British merchant ship. Later the same night, at 01:16 on 24 February, the unescorted British SS Linaria of 3,385 GRT was attacked with a single torpedo. The ship sank 25 minutes after being hit by the torpedo at the stern.[20] All 35 crew members were lost in the attack.[21] An hour after Linaria was attacked, U-96 attacked the British SS Sirikishna of 5,458 GRT, hitting the ship amidships. Six hours later, U-96 launched a second torpedo at the wreck, that had been abandoned by the crew, which included the commodore of OB 288, Rear Admiral R.A.A. Plowden, DSO. There were no survivors.
After escaping the attack of an escort, HMS Churchill, U-96 made for port in St. Nazaire, France, where she arrived after 30 days at sea on 28 February, having sunk seven ships for a total of 45,391 GRT.[23] Upon arrival the commander of U-96, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, was presented with the Knight\'s Cross of the Iron Cross, which he had been awarded two days before. The Wehrmachtbericht had announced on 25 February that Lehmann had sunk 55,600 tons on his last patrol, and a total of 125,580 tons of Allied shipping since taking command of U-96.
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