Fort Buckingham
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| Name | Fort Buckingham | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (North Sands) | ||
| Tonnage | 7.122 tons | ||
| Completed | 1943 - Burrard Dry Dock Co, North Vancouver | ||
| Owner | Joseph Constantine SS Line Ltd, Middlesbrough | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 20 Jan, 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-188 (Siegfried Lüdden) | ||
| Position | 08.19N, 66.40E - Grid LB 2616 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 89 (38 dead and 51 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Bombay - Durban - Buenos Aires | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed February 1943 for US War Shipping Administration (WSA), lend-leased on bareboat charter to British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.39 hours on 20 Jan, 1944, the unescorted Fort Buckingham (Master Murdo Macleod DSC) was hit by two torpedoes from U-188 northwest of the Maldive Islands and sank within 10 minutes. The master, 30 crew members and seven gunners were lost. Six survivors were picked up by the British merchant Moorby and landed at Fremantle on 29 January. 28 crew members and nine gunners were picked up on 5 February by the Norwegian merchant Ora, transferred to the British destroyer HMS Redoubt (H 41) (LtCdr N.E.G. Ropner) and landed at Bombay on 9 February. Eight survivors were rescued by the Norwegian tanker Kongsdal and landed at Melbourne on 22 February. | ||
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