Arthur F. Corwin
| Name | Arthur F. Corwin | ||
| Type: | Motor tanker | ||
| Tonnage | 10,516 tons | ||
| Completed | 1938 - Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | ||
| Owner | Oriental Tankers Ltd (Standard Transp. Co Ltd), Hong Kong | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 13 Feb 1941 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-96 ( Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock) | ||
| Position | 60.25N, 17.11W - Grid AL 3281 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 46 (46 dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | HX-106 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Aruba - Halifax - Avonmouth | ||
| Cargo | 14.500 tons of motor spirit | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 16.25 hours on 13 Feb, 1941, U-103 (Schütze) damaged the Arthur F. Corwin (Master John Lawrence Gant), a straggler from convoy HX-106, with two torpedoes southeast of Iceland (grid AL 3245). The U-boat then left the burning tanker in a sinking condition. At 19.50 hours the same day, U-96 came across the wreck of Arthur F. Corwin, which was still afloat and sank her with two coups de grāce. The master, 43 crew members and two gunners were lost. | ||
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