Port Victor
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| Name | Port Victor | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 12.411 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | Port Line Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 1 May, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-107 (Harald Gelhaus) | ||
| Position | 47.49N, 22.02W - Grid BE 4511 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 164 (19 dead and 145 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Buenos Aires - Montevideo (17 Apr) - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 7600 tons of refrigerated foodstuffs and 2000 tons of general cargo | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 00.30 hours on 1 May, 1943, U-107 fired a spread of two stern torpedoes at the unescorted Port Victor (Master William Gordon Higgs) northeast of the Azores, which was zig-zagging directly into a good firing position in about 1000 metres distance. The ship carried 65 passengers (including 23 women and children), stopped after one torpedo hit amidships and the crew made the lifeboats ready to be launched. After a first coup de grāce hit amidships at 00.36 hours the boats were lowered, but when she was hit in the bow by a second coup de grāce at 00.45 hours two lifeboats were destroyed and the occupants killed. The vessel developed a list to port but still sent radio messages until being hit underneath the bridge by a third coup de grāce, which broke the ship in two and caused her to sink. Twelve crew members, two gunners and five passengers were lost. The master, 74 crew members, ten gunners and 60 passengers were picked up by HMS Wren (U 28) (LtCdr R.M. Aubrey) and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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