Fircrest
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| Name | Fircrest | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5,394 tons | ||
| Completed | 1907 - Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack | ||
| Owner | Crest Shipping Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 25 Aug 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-124 (Georg-Wilhelm Schulz) | ||
| Position | 58.52N, 06.34W - Grid AM 3645 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 39 (39 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | HX-65A | ||
| Route | Wabana, Conception Bay - Halifax - Middlesbrough | ||
| Cargo | 7900 tons of iron ore | ||
| History | Built as Rivol, 1921 renamed Yugosalavian Preradovic for Jugoslavenski Lloyd Akcionarsko Drustvo, Zagreb; 1940 sold Britain and renamed Fircrest. | ||
| Notes on loss | Between 23.50 and 23.56 hours on 25 Aug, 1940, U-124 fired four torpedoes at four ships in the convoy HX-65A 23 miles north of the Butt of Lewis, Hebrides and reported four steamers sunk. However, the Harpalyce and Fircrest were sunk and the Stakesby was damaged. There were no survivors from the Fircrest (Master Russell Helton Tuckett OBE), the master and 38 crew members were lost. | ||
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