Fort Concord
British Steam merchant
| Name | Fort Concord | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (North Sands) | ||
| Tonnage | 7,138 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Lauzon PQ | ||
| Owner | Larrinaga & Co Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 11 May 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-456 (Max-Martin Teichert) | ||
| Position | 46.05N, 25.20W - Grid BC 4714 | ||
| Complement | 56 (35 dead and 21 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-237 (straggler) | ||
| Route | St. John, New Brunswick - Halifax (3 May) - Manchester | ||
| Cargo | 8500 tons of grain and 700 tons of military stores | ||
| History | Completed in November 1942 for US War Shipping Administration (WSA), lend-leased to Britain on bareboat charter for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 04.41 hours on 11 May 1943, the Fort Concord (Master Francis Prideaux Ryan), a straggler from convoy HX-237 was torpedoed and sunk by U-456 about 350 miles north of the Azores. The master, 26 crew members and eight gunners were lost. The Chief Officer J.B. Tunbridge, 17 crew members and one passenger (DBS) were rescued by HMCS Drumheller (K 167) (T/Lt L.P. Denny, RCNR) and landed at Londonderry. On 18 May, U-103 (Janssen) sighted a raft with five survivors from the Fort Concord and took J. Oxton, the 15 years old ship’s boy and the second engineer Huxley as prisoners on board. They gave the food and water to the remaining three survivors (two Indians and a Japanese) and left the area, but this men were never found. | ||
Location of attack on Fort Concord.
ship sunk.
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