SS Maasdam (1921)

SS Maasdam (1921) (🇳🇱 Netherlands) was a Convoy HX 133 cargo liner that was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Greenland (60°N, -30.58333°W) by GS U-564 on June 27, 1941, with the loss of two of the 80 people on board. Survivors were rescued by MV Havprins and another ship (both 🇳🇴 Norway)

One of the people lost at sea was Ruth Bradley Woodman Breckinridge, wife of Colonel Henry S. Breckinridge (Secretary of War under Harry S. Truman), mother of Elizabeth Breckinridge and mother-in-law of John Stephens Graham. Ruth Breckinridge traveled via the SS Maasdam for England where she was to work in London at a hospital as a house mother to Red Cross nurses.

Prior to being sunk in 1941, it collided with the SS Anthea (🇬🇧 United Kingdom cargo ship off the coast of Canada (44.8°N, -46.61667°W) and SS Anthea sank.