Carmona
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| Name | Carmona | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 5.496 tons | ||
| Completed | 1919 - Long Beach Shipbuilding Co, Long Beach CA | ||
| Owner | National Bulk Carriers Inc, New York | ||
| Homeport | Panama | ||
| Date of attack | 18 Jul, 1942 | Nationality:  Panaman | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-160 (Georg Lassen) | ||
| Position | 10.58N, 61.20W - Grid ED 9865 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 35 (4 dead and 31 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Argentina - USA | ||
| Cargo | 7138 tons of linseed | ||
| History | Built as American West Kasson, 1926 renamed Cuzco for W.R. Grace & Co, New York; 1940 renamed Carmona for National Bulk Carriers Inc, New York and registered under Panamanian flag. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 16.33 hours on 18 Jul, 1942, the unescorted and unarmed Carmona (Master Charles Beke) was hit by one torpedo from U-160 at the starboard side in the engine room, wrecking the engines and killing four men. Ten minutes later a second torpedo hit the starboard side at #2 hatch. Two other torpedoes hit also the starboard side about five minutes later. The ship turned on her side and sank 30 minutes after the first hit southeast of Trinidad. The survivors abandoned ship in two lifeboats after the first hit and were picked up by the American patrol boat USS YPC-68, which was about two miles inshore of the Carmona when she was hit and were taken to Port of Spain. | ||
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