HMS Broadwater (H 81)
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| Name | HMS Broadwater (H 81) | ||
| Type: | Destroyer (Town) | ||
| Tonnage | 1.190 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, Newport News VA | ||
| Owner | The Admiralty | ||
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| Date of attack | 18 Oct, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-101 (Ernst Mengersen) | ||
| Position | 57.01N, 19.08W - Grid AL 3951 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (? dead and ? survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-48 | ||
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| History | Built as USS Mason (DD 191). On 8 Oct, 1940 transferred to the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Broadwater (H 81). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 04.20 hours on 18 Oct, 1941, HMS Broadwater (H 81) (LtCdr W.A.L. Astwood), escorting the convoy SC-48, was torpedoed and sunk by U-101 about 400 miles south of Iceland. | ||
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