Hopetarn
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| Name | Hopetarn | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.231 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Stott, Mann & Fleming Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ||
| Homeport | Newcastle | ||
| Date of attack | 29 May, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-198 (Werner Hartmann) | ||
| Position | 30.50S, 39.32E - Grid JA 1223 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 44 (7 dead and 37 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Calcutta (7 May) - Colombo (16 May) - Durban - Table Bay - UK | ||
| Cargo | 9000 tons of general cargo | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 19.37 hours on 29 May 1943, the unescorted Hopetarn (Master Stewart Wilson) was torpedoed and sunk by U-198 about 450 miles east of Durban. Six crew members and one gunner were lost. The second officer was taken prisoner by the U-boat, landed at Bordeaux on 24 September and taken to the POW camp Milag Nord. The master, 28 crew members and seven gunners were picked up two days later by the British merchant Nirvana and landed at Durban on 3 June. | ||
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