Catalina
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| Name | Catalina | ||
| Type: | Motor fishing vessel | ||
| Tonnage | 632 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Smith´s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank, Middlesbrough | ||
| Owner | C.A. Moreira & Cia Ltda, Porto | ||
| Homeport | Porto | ||
| Date of attack | 15 Jan 1942 | Nationality:  Portuguese | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-203 (Rolf Mützelburg) | ||
| Position | 47N, 52W - Grid BB 6652 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (? dead - no survivors) | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Fortune, Newfoundland - St. Johns - Oporto | ||
| Cargo | Cod fish | ||
| History | Completed in May 1918 as patrol gunboat HMS Kilkeel of the Kil-Class for the Royal Navy. 1920 converted to a trawler and renamed Falconer. 1929 sold to Portugal and renamed Catalina. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 11.34 hours on 15 Jan, 1942, U-203 hit a ship with a torpedo aft of amidship and saw how it sank within two minutes after a heavy explosion. Mützelburg thought that he had sunk an ammunition ship, but his victim was the trawler Catalina (Master Henry Thornhill). | ||
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