JEAN JADOT underway with a tug alongside

JEAN JADOT underway with a tug alongside

JEAN JADOT underway with a tug alongside. Also seen in this view are other vessels underway and, what may be, a pilot station with tugs docked alongside in the foreground.
Name: JEAN JADOT
Type: Steam merchant ship
Tonnage: 5,859 tons
Completed: 1929 - Flensburger Schiffsbau-Ges., Flensburg
Owner: Compagnie Maritime Belge (Lloyd Royal) SA, Antwerp
Homeport: Antwerp
Date of attack: Jan 20, 1943
Nationality: Belgian
Fate: Sunk by U-453
Complement: 414 (15 dead and 399 survivors).
Route: Liverpool - Clyde - Algiers
Cargo: Troops, motor transport, gasoline and four tanks as deck cargo
History Completed in June 1929
Notes on event: Between 16.33 and 16.35 hours on January 20, 1943, U-453 fired four torpedoes at convoy KMS-7 about 30 miles west of Cape Ténès and heard three detonations and one ship sinking. The only ship hit was the JEAN JADOT (Master J. Prié) which sank after 15 minutes. The ship carried 80 crew members (36 Belgians), 19 officers and 304 ratings of the British Army and 11 gunners. Six crew members and nine soldiers were lost. 250 survivors were picked up by HMS VERITY (D 63) (LtCdr R. Horncastle, RN) and the remaining men by the French trawler DOUGUAY-TROUIN.