Guido
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| Name | Guido | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 3.921 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole | ||
| Owner | Ellerman´s Wilson Line Ltd, Hull | ||
| Homeport | Hull | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Mar, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-633 (Bernhard Müller) | ||
| Position | 58.08N, 32.20W - Grid AK 2731 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 45 (10 dead and 35 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-121 (romper) | ||
| Route | St.Kitts - New York (23 Feb) - Greenock | ||
| Cargo | 4242 tons of sugar and 24 tons of cotton and mail | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.55 hours on 8 Mar, 1943, the Guido (Master George Mussared) was torpedoed and sunk by U-633 about 450 miles east-southeast of Cape Farewell. The vessel was a romper 10 miles off the starboard bow of the convoy SC-121. Eight crew members and two gunners were lost. The master, 28 crew members and six gunners were picked up by the US Coast Guard cutter USS Spencer (WPG 36) and landed at Londonderry. | ||
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