Trinidad
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| Name | Trinidad | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 434 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - Scheepswerf J. Pattje, Waterhuizen | ||
| Owner | Naviera Ortu-Zara SA, Panama | ||
| Homeport | Panama | ||
| Date of attack | 6 Sep, 1941 | Nationality:  Panaman | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-95 (Gerd Schreiber) | ||
| Position | 46.06N, 17.04W - Grid BE 5954 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 10 (0 dead and 10 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Lisbon - Dublin | ||
| Cargo | 500 pipes of port and cork | ||
| History | Built as Jordan, 1941 renamed Trinidad | ||
| Notes on loss | At 01.23 hours on 6 Sep, 1941, the unescorted Trinidad was sunk by U-95 with 37 rounds from the deck gun. The ship had been ordered to stop at 23.50 hours the day before and her master brought the papers to the U-boat after some rounds were fired over the ship with a machine-gun. The papers revealed that the ship was en route for Britain and the crew was given 20 minutes to abandon ship. | ||
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