on 8 Dec 2012 Steve Nichols wrote The ex Italian merchant ship Olimpia, ( built as Rickmer Rickmers ,1920, 6,040 tons ) seized by German forces in September of 1943 was sunk by British destroyers 14th Oct 1943 in the Adriatic. I can only find an SS Olympus ( 5,216 tons ) sunk in Adriatic on 7th Oct 1943 by HMS Faulknor, Fury, Penelope and Sirius. Is this the same ship? I can find no trace of a surface action on the 14th. Any information would be appreciated. >>>>>>>>>>>> and Ted Finch replied <snip> Sep.1943 seized by Germans at Trieste. 16th Oct.1943 torpedoed and sunk off Lissa, in Bocche di Cattaro by British motor torpedo boats. >>>>>>>>>>>> There have been some related queries on Warsailors - http://warsailors.com/forum/list.php?1 - always a useful source for this kind of information (or for asking if it is not already there). But there is something very odd in this case. One member writes that 15 Oct 1943 OLIMPIA sailed from Trieste for Durazzo [Durres, Albania] with 648t hay & straw, 105t ammunition, 912t "pioneer material", 833t foodstuffs, 1124t oats and 1290t flour. 16 Oct 1943 sunk around 5pm by the destroyers HMS TUMULT (R-11) and HMS TYRIAN (R-67). http://warsailors.com/forum/read.php?1,13240,13240 But now suggested that OLIMPIA was sunk in error by German coastal artillery on that same date 16 Oct 1943 (and noting claim that she had been sunk 14 Oct by the British destoyers (apparently before she had left Trieste). http://warsailors.com/forum/read.php?1,53462. And there is another twist. See [www.iwm.org.uk] This describes a collection of photographs concerning HMS TUMULT 14-16 Oct 1943 ............... Earlier, on 6 Dec 1940, OLIMPIA was disabled by torpedo from British submarine HMS TRITON (N-15) when outbound from Trieste, but subsequently repaired. best wishes DAvid