Fort Howe
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| Name | Fort Howe | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (North Sands) | ||
| Tonnage | 7.133 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Burrard Dry Dock Co, North Vancouver | ||
| Owner | F.C. Strick & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 1 Oct, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-410 (Horst-Arno Fenski) | ||
| Position | 37.19N, 06.40E - Grid CJ 7718 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 70 (2 dead and 68 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | MKS-26 | ||
| Route | Salerno (beachhead) - UK | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed November 1942 for US War Shipping Administration (WSA), lend-leased on bareboat charter to British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00h05 on 1 Oct, 1943, U-410 fired five single torpedoes at the convoy MKS-26 east of Bougie and observed one ship sinking and heard four more detonations. The resulting report indicated the sinking or torpedoing of four ships totalling 31000 tons. In fact, two ships were sunk, the Fort Howe and Empire Commerce. The master William Williams, 49 crew members and 18 gunners from Fort Howe were picked up by the British corvettes HMS Spiraea (K 08) (Lt A.H. Pierce OBE) and HMS Alisma (K 185) (Lt G. Lanning RANVR) and landed at Bougie respectively at Algiers. Two gunners were lost. | ||
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