Tabitha Brown
American Steam merchant
Name | Tabitha Brown | ||
Type: | Steam merchant (Liberty) | ||
Tonnage | 7,176 tons | ||
Completed | 1942 - Oregon Shipbuilding Co, Portland OR | ||
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Homeport | |||
Date of attack | 9 Mar 1943 | Nationality: American | |
Fate | Damaged by U-510 (Karl Neitzel) | ||
Position | 7° 11'N, 52° 30'W - Grid EP 4168 | ||
Complement | ? men (0 dead and ? survivors). | ||
Convoy | BT-6 | ||
Route | Suez - Table Bay - Paramaribo | ||
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History | | ||
Notes on event | At 03.06, 03.07 and 03.10 hours on 9 March 1943, U-510 fired torpedoes at convoy BT-6 about 200 miles northeast of Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana and reported four ships sunk. In fact, Kelvinbank was sunk and George G. Meade, Tabitha Brown and Joseph Rodman Drake were damaged. |
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