Dumra
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| Name | Dumra | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.304 tons | ||
| Completed | 1922 - C. Hill & Sons, Bristol | ||
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Glasgow | ||
| Date of attack | 5 Jun, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-198 (Werner Hartmann) | ||
| Position | 28.15S, 33.20E - Grid KP 5989 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 93 (26 dead and 67 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Tulear, Madagascar - Durban | ||
| Cargo | Lorries | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | On 5 Jun, 1943, the unescorted Dumra (Master Wilfred Charles Cripps) was torpedoed and sunk by U-198 northeast of Durban. The master, 24 crew members and one gunner were lost. 65 crew members and one gunner landed at Santa Lucia Bay, Natal. The chief engineer Henry Townsend Graham was taken prisoner by the U-boat. On 26 June, he and Owen Reed, the master of William King, were transferred to the German supply ship Charlotte Schliemann, which landed them at Batavia, Java in August 1943. They were handed over to the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. Both men were killed aboard the Japanese “hell ship” Junyo Maru, when she was torpedoed and sunk by the HMS Tradewind (P 329) on 18 Sep, 1944 en route from Batavia to Padang, Sumatra. 5620 men of the 4200 Javanese slave labourers and 2300 Allied prisoners on board died. | ||
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