Humber Arm
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| Name | Humber Arm | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.758 tons | ||
| Completed | 1925 - Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ||
| Owner | Bowater´s Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, Corner Brook | ||
| Homeport | St.Johns | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Jul, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-99 (Otto Kretschmer) | ||
| Position | 50.36N, 09.24W - Grid BF 1251 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 43 (0 dead and 43 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-53 | ||
| Route | Corner Brook, Newfoundland - Halifax (25 Jun) - Ellesmere Port | ||
| Cargo | 1000 tons of steel, 5450 tons of newsprint, 300 tons of lumber and 450 tons of pulp | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 07.53 hours on 8 Jul, 1940, the Humber Arm (Master Jack Rowland Morbey) in convoy HX-53 was hit in the foreship by one torpedo from U-99 and sank 60 miles south of Fastnet. The master, 41 crew members and one passenger were picked up by HMS Scimitar (H 21) (Lt R.D. Franks, OBE, RN) and HMS Vanquisher (D 54) (Cdr C.B. Alers-Hankey, RN) and landed at Milford Haven. | ||
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