Fresno City
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| Name | Fresno City | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 7.261 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons Ltd, Cardiff | ||
| Homeport | Cardiff | ||
| Date of attack | 12 Apr, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-706 (Alexander von Zitzewitz) | ||
| Position | 54.15N, 30.00W - Grid AK 6485 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 45 (0 dead and 45 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-232 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Bombay - Cristobal - New York (1 Apr) - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 3000 tons of manganese ore and 5965 tons of general cargo, including mail | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | Between 04.38 and 04.46 hours on 12 Apr, 1943, U-563 (von Hartmann) fired torpedoes at the convoy HX-232 southeast of Cape Farewell (grid AK 6721) and reported three ships sunk and one damaged. The Pacific Grove and Ulysses were sunk and the Fresno City was damaged. At 08.42 hours, U-168 (Pich) observed a burning tanker and U-706 reported a burning vessel being sunk by an escort vessel, probably one of the ships hit by U-563. At 13.40 hours the same day, the straggling Fresno City was finished off by U-706 with a coup de grāce. The master, 36 crew members and eight gunners from the Fresno City (Master Randolph Alfred Lawson) were picked up by HMS Azalea (K 25) (Lt G.C. Geddes) and landed at Gourock. | ||
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