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 at 00.30 on 27 November 1939 at the position , 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 1928 ships Ships built in Gothenburg World War II tankers World War II shipwrecks in the North Sea Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II Maritime incidents in November 1939 World War II merchant ships of Sweden 1928 in Sweden Shipwrecks of Scotland History of Shetland Fair Isle 1939 in Scotland