Photographic Print, Waterton cargo ship with men on deck
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Accession Number:
2002.25.33Date
circa 1940Description
Photographic print, Ship at port “Waterton”. Nine unidentified men on deck.Name Waterton
Type:Steam merchant
Tonnage2,140 tons
Completed1928 - Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Owner Bowater´s Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, Corner Brook
Home port Newcastle
Date of attack11 Oct 1942Nationality: British
Fate Sunk by U-106 (Hermann Rasch)
Position 47° 07'N, 59° 54'W - Grid BB 5434
Complement 27 (0 dead and 27 survivors).
Convoy BS-31
Route Corner Brook, Newfoundland (10 Oct) - Cleveland, Ohio
Cargo 2000 tons of wood sulphate and newsprint
History Completed in May 1928
Notes on event At 15.47 hours on 11 Oct 1942 the Waterton (Master William Lutjens) in convoy BS-31 was hit by two torpedoes from U-106 and sank by the stern north of Cape Breton Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The master, 24 crew members and two gunners were picked up by HMCS Vison (T/Lt W.E. Nicholson, RCNR) and landed at Sydney.