Maldonado
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| Name | Maldonado | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.285 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Ropner & Sons Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees | ||
| Owner | Adm. Nacional de Puertos, Montevideo | ||
| Homeport | Montevideo | ||
| Date of attack | 2 Aug, 1942 | Nationality:  Uruguay | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-510 (Karl Neitzel) | ||
| Position | 28.20N, 63.10W - Grid DD 8417 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 49 (0 dead and 49 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Montevideo - New York | ||
| Cargo | 7000 tons of tinned meat, hides, wool and fats | ||
| History | In January 1919 completed as British War Mallow for Shipping Controller, managed by Stamp, Mann & Co. 1919 renamed Briarwood for J. Constantine, Middlesborough. 1920 sold to Woodfield SS Co, London. 1921 renamed Heathfield for the same owner. 1933 sold Greece and renamed Nedon for A. Callinicos, Ithaca. 1938 sold Italy and renamed Fausto for Hugo Trumpy, Genoa. In September 1941, the Fausto was seized at Montevideo by Uruguay and renamed Maldonado. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 06.12 hours on 2 Aug, 1942, the unescorted Maldonado was torpedoed by U-510 and sunk with a coup de grāce at 06.42 hours. Neitzel had spotted an illuminated ship and radioed to the BdU for orders, which answered that he is allowed to sink it if the ship was not Argentine, Swiss or Portuguese. Only when questioning the survivors after the sinking it was learned that the ship had been from the neutral Uruguay. | ||
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