Ships hit by U-boats


Colombia

Panamanian Motor merchant


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NameColombia
Type:Motor merchant
Tonnage1,064 tons
Completed1939 - Öresundsvarvet A/B, Landskrona 
OwnerCia de Navegacion y Tierras Elliot SA, Panama 
HomeportPanama 
Date of attack8 Dec 1943Nationality:      Panamanian
 
FateSunk by U-516 (Hans-Rutger Tillessen)
Position9° 50'N, 78° 55'W - Grid EL 3156
Complement27 (4 dead and 23 survivors).
Convoy
RouteBarranquilla - Cristobal 
Cargo14,800 bags of coffee and 330 bundles of cinchona bark 
History Completed in March 1939 
Notes on event

At 11.15 hours on 8 December 1943 the unescorted Colombia was hit in the bow by one of two torpedoes fired by U-516 and sank about 20 miles north of San Blas Point. The survivors made landfall on Porvenir Island the next day and USS SC-1023 was sent from Cristobal to pick them up, but the ship ran aground at Mandinga Point. USS PC-466 eventually recovered the submarine chaser and both vessels returned to Cristobal with the survivors from Colombia on 11 December.

 


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