Cortes
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| Name | Cortes | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,374 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee | ||
| Owner | MacAndrews & Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 26 Sep 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-203 ( Rolf Mützelburg) | ||
| Position | 47.48N, 23.45W - Grid BE 4156 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 42 (42 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | HG-73 | ||
| Route | Lisbon - London | ||
| Cargo | General cargo, including potash and cork | ||
| History | Laid down as War Waveney for The Shipping Controller, completed in August 1919 as Cortes for MacAndrews & Co Ltd, London. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.31 hours on 26 Sep, 1941, U-203 fired four torpedoes at the convoy HG-73 north of the Azores and saw one hit and heard three detonations after diving. Later Mützelburg saw lifeboats and sank a damaged vessel by a coup de grâce at 06.34 hours (probably the Cortes). He claimed two ships with 20.000 grt sunk and one other damaged. In fact, three ships were sunk: Varangberg, Avoceta and Cortes. All hands on board Cortes (Master Donald Ray McRae), the master, 35 crew members and six passengers were lost. | ||
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