Baja California
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| Name | Baja California | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1.648 tons | ||
| Completed | 1914 - Robert Thompson & Sons Ltd, Bridge Dockyard, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Mayan SS Co (United Fruit Co), Tela | ||
| Homeport | Puerto Cortez | ||
| Date of attack | 19 Jul, 1942 | Nationality:  Honduras | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-84 (Horst Uphoff) | ||
| Position | 25.14N, 82.27W - Grid DM 1651 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 37 (3 dead and 34 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | New Orleans - Puerto Barrios, Guatemala | ||
| Cargo | War material | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 06.45 hours on 19 Jul, 1942, the unescorted Baja California (Master Aage Christensen) was hit by two torpedoes from U-84. The first hit at the forward end of #1 hatch on the port side and the second hit at the forward end of #3 hatch abaft the Chief Engineerīs room. She took a port list immediately and sank lying on its side in ten minutes 40 miles northeast from Rebecca Shoals. Of the 32 crewmen and five armed guards on board were three crewmen killed and the Chief Engineer and 10 others were seriously injured. The survivors abandoned ship in one lifeboat and two rafts, because the other lifeboat was destroyed by the explosion. They were picked up at daylight on next day by the Cuban fishing schooner San Ignacio and were taken to Havana Naval Station arriving there on 21 July. | ||
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