Pinto
| Name | Pinto | ||
| Type: | Rescue ship | ||
| Tonnage | 1.346 tons | ||
| Completed | 1928 - Harland & Wolff Ltd, Govan, Glasgow | ||
| Owner | MacAndrews & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Sep, 1944 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-482 (Graf von Hartmut Matuschka, Freiherr von Toppolczan und Spaetgen) | ||
| Position | 55.27N, 08.01W - Grid AM 5387 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 59 (18 dead and 41 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HXF-305 | ||
| Route | Halifax - Greenock | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | On 5 Dec, 1942, the motor merchant Pinto was commissioned as rescue ship by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 05.51 hours on 8 Sep, 1944, U-482 fired a torpedo spread at the convoy HXF-305 north-northeast of Tory Island and heard a detonation and sinking noises. The same happened after firing a Gnat at 05.59 hours. Apparently both torpedoes hit the Empire Heritage. At 06.37 hours, the U-boat fired a Gnat at a stopped ship, which sank shortly after the hit. The stopped vessel was the rescue ship Pinto, which was rescuing the survivors of the torpedoed tanker when attacked. The master, six crew members, eight gunners and one signalman from the Pinto (Master Lawrence Stanley Boggs MBE) and two survivors from the Empire Heritage were lost when the rescue ship sank. 29 crew members, eight gunners, one surgeon, two sick bay attendants and one signalman were picked up by the HMS Northern Wave (FY 153) (Lt F.J.R. Storey) and landed at Londonderry. | ||
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