Ufa
Ufa under her former name Toulouse
| Name | Ufa | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.892 tons | ||
| Completed | 1917 - Superior Shipbuilding Co, Superior WI | ||
| Owner | Severnoje Gosudarstvennoe Morskoe Parokhodstvo (SGMP) | ||
| Homeport | Leningrad | ||
| Date of attack | 26 Jan, 1943 | Nationality:  Soviet | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-255 (Reinhart Reche) | ||
| Position | Grid AC 6751 | ||
| Complement | 39 (39 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Kola Inlet (23 Jan) - Akureyri, Iceland - USA | ||
| Cargo | |||
| History | Built as French Toulouse for Cie. Française des Chemins de Fer de Paris-Orleans, Nantes. 1928 sold to Norway and renamed Aquila. 1934 sold to the Sovietunion and renamed Ufa. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 11.00 hours on 26 Jan, 1943, U-255 reported an icebreaker/freighter sunk with two torpedoes in the Barents Sea. The Ufa (Master A.I. Patrikeyew) left Kola Inlet on 23 January and was reported missing thereafter. | ||
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