Winnipeg II
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| Name | Winnipeg II | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 9.807 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Ateliers & Chantiers de France, Dunkirk | ||
| Owner | Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, Montreal | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 22 Oct, 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-443 (Konstantin von Puttkamer) | ||
| Position | 49.51N, 27.58W - Grid BD 3544 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 192 (0 dead and 192 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | ON-139 | ||
| Route | Liverpool (15 Oct) - St.John, New Brunswick | ||
| Cargo | 3000 tons of general cargo | ||
| History | built as Jacques Cartier, 1929 renamed Winnipeg, 1938 renamed Paimpol, 1939 renamed Winnipeg for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Le Havre. In the evening on 26 May, 1941, the Vichy French Winnipeg enroute from Casablanca to Guadeloupe with about 750 passengers was captured by HNMS Van Kinsbergen (U 93) and taken the next day to Port of Spain, Trinidad. The ship was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Winnipeg II. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 21.45 hours on 22 Oct, 1942, U-443 fired a spread of two torpedoes at the convoy ON-139 southwest of Fastnet and heard two hits but no detonations after 1 minutes 14 seconds. These were probably duds. At 21.48 hours, the U-boat fired another spread of two torpedoes, which sank the Winnipeg II. Two minutes later the stern torpedo was fired, which damaged the Donax. The master, 113 crew members, ten gunners and 68 passengers from Winnipeg II (Master Oswald Franklin Pennington, DSC) were picked up by HMCS Morden (K 170) (Lt Jack J. Hodgkinson) and landed at St.Johns on 25 October. | ||
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