After the initial torpedo strike, the commander of U-123, Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen, surfaced his boat to finish the stricken tanker.
She was named after the second engineer of the Esso Baton Rouge, who was killed when Esso Baton Rouge was sunk by Reinhard Hardegen's U-123 on 8 April 1942.
Reinhard Heydrich | Ulrike Reinhard | Reinhard Selten | Reinhard Goebel | Reinhard Flatischler | Johan Reinhard | Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann | Reinhard Mey | Reinhard Marx | Reinhard Haupenthal | Reinhard Hardegen | Reinhard Gehlen | Wilhelm Reinhard | ''The Gardens of Adonis'' (1888) by John Reinhard Weguelin | Steve Reinhard | Reinhard Wilhelm | Reinhard Scheer | Reinhard Peters | Reinhard Opitz | Reinhard Maack | Reinhard Libuda | Reinhard Kienast | Reinhard Keiser | Reinhard Erös | Peter Reinhard Hansen |
by John Reinhard Weguelin