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Name	Gustaf E. Reuter
Owner	Rederi AB Reut, Kungsbacka, Halland, Sweden
Builder	Eriksbergs M.V., Gothenburg, Sweden
Launched	14 February 1928
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk off Fair Isle, Scotland, 27 November 1939
General characteristics
Type	Oil tanker
Tonnage	6,336 tons GRT
Length	418 ft 9 in (127.64 m)
Beam	55 ft 11 in (17.04 m)
Depth	32 ft 1 in (9.78 m)
Propulsion	543 nhp (405 kW) diesel engine
Crew	34

MT Gustaf E. Reuter was a 6,336 ton Swedish motor tanker belonging to the company Rederi AB Reut. She was built in 1928 by the Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad shipyard in Gothenburg.

On a voyage from Haugesund to Curaçao she was torpedoed and sunk by the U-boat U-48 at 00.30 on 27 November 1939 at the position 59°38′N 02°03′W / 59.633°N 2.050°W / 59.633; -2.050, 14 miles west-northwest from Fair Isle, in Shetland, Scotland, and broke in two. The wreck was sunk by an escort vessel the next day. One person died while 33 survived.

References

1. ^ "Merchant and Navy Ship events 1939-1945 (WWII)". mareud.com. 2012. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
2. "Ship Details Gustaf E. Reuter". ubootwaffe.net. 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
3. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Gustaf E. Reuter (Swedish Motor tanker)". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1939
Shipwrecks	13 Nov: HMS Blanche 15 Nov: Baikal 17 Nov: Kaunas 19 Nov: Stanbrook 20 Nov: V 209 Gauleiter Telschow 21 Nov: HMS Gipsy, Terukuni Maru 22 Nov: Adolph Woermann, HMS Bruce 23 Nov: HMS Rawalpindi 25 Nov: V 301 Weser 28 Nov: Gustaf E. Reuter 29 Nov: 'U-35
Other incidents	9 Nov: Leander 15 Nov: Brulin 21 Nov: HMS Belfast
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