Cathrine
Cathrine under her former name Covedale
| Name | Cathrine | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.727 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse MI | ||
| Owner | George Gibson & Co Ltd, Leith | ||
| Homeport | Grangemouth | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Jun, 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-43 (Wolfgang Lüth) | ||
| Position | 49.30N, 16W - Grid BD 3933 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 27 (24 dead and 3 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SL-76 | ||
| Route | Pepel - Freetown (30 May) - Barrow | ||
| Cargo | 3700 tons of manganese ore | ||
| History | Built as steam merchant Covedale for US Shipping Board, Washington DC. 1922 converted to motor merchant Muncove for Munson Steamship Lines, New York. 1940 sold to Estonia and reamed Peeter for J. Inkapool & Co, Tallinn. 1941 sold to Panama and renamed Cathrine for Carlbom, Panama. 1941 taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.15 hours on 17 Jun, 1941, the Cathrine (Master Johannes Teng) in convoy SL-76 was torpedoed and sunk by U-43 about 250 miles southwest of Cape Clear. The master and 23 crew members were lost. The wireless operator and two crew members were rescued after 33 days in a lifeboat by the British trawler Boreas and landed at Valentia, Co. Cork. | ||
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