Castle Harbour
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| Name | Castle Harbour | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 730 tons | ||
| Completed | 1929 - Blythswood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | Bermuda & West Indies SS Co, Hamilton, Bermuda | ||
| Homeport | Hamilton | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Oct 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-160 (Georg Lassen) | ||
| Position | 11.00N, 61.10W - Grid ED 9954 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 23 (9 dead and 14 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | TRIN-19 | ||
| Route | Trinidad (16 Oct) - Pernambuco, Brazil | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Built as Mid Ocean, later renamed Castle Harbour | ||
| Notes on loss | At 21.20 hours on 16 Oct, 1942, U-160 fired torpedoes from the starboard side at the convoy TRIN-19 50 miles east-northeast of Trinidad. One torpedo struck the Castle Harbour in station #81, which lost her bow and sank within 20 seconds and another struck 30 seconds later the Winona in station #72, which was damaged but reached Port of Spain under own power. The master Francis Theaker and 13 crew members from the Castle Harbour were picked up by the American submarine chaser USS SC-53 and landed at Trinidad. Nine crew members were lost. | ||
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