Tutoya
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| Name | Tutoya | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.125 tons | ||
| Completed | 1913 - W. Dobson & Co, Walker-on-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Lloyd Brasilieiro, Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Homeport | Rio de Janeiro | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Jul, 1943 | Nationality:  Brazilian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-513 (Friedrich Guggenberger) | ||
| Position | 24.43S, 47.19W - Grid GB 16 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 37 (7 dead and 30 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Paranaguá - Santos | ||
| Cargo | 750 tons of general cargo, including coffee, lumber, potatoes and salted meat | ||
| History | Built as Mitcham for Wandsworth, Wimbledon & Epson District Gas Co, London. 1927 sold to Brazil and renamed Uno for Lloyd Brasilieiro, Rio de Janeiro and 1930 renamed Tutoya. | ||
| Notes on loss | In the night on 1 Jul, 1943, the unescorted Tutoya (Master Acácio de Araújo Faria) was hit by one torpedo from U-513 and sank by the bow in a few minutes off the coast of São Paulo. The master and six crew members were lost. 17 survivors in a lifeboat and 6 men on a raft made landfall at the coast and a second boat with 7 occupants was towed into the harbour of Santos by a motorboat. | ||
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