Watsonville
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| Name | Watsonville | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2.220 tons | ||
| Completed | 1918 - Albina Engine & Machine Works Inc, Portland OR | ||
| Owner | Transpacific Steamship Co, Panama | ||
| Homeport | Panama | ||
| Date of attack | 23 May, 1942 | Nationality:  Panaman | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-155 (Adolf Cornelius Piening) | ||
| Position | 13.12N, 61.20W - Grid ED 9314 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (0 dead and ? survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Bermuda - St. Vincent - Trinidad | ||
| Cargo | General cargo | ||
| History | Completed in December 1918 as Callabasas for US Shipping Board and 1920 sold to Atlantic Fruit Co. 1929 sold to Hammond Lumber Co, San Franciso and renamed Watsonville. 1941 sold to Transpacific Steamship Co and registered in Panama. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 22.04 hours on 23 May, 1942, the unescorted Watsonville was hit aft by one torpedo from U-155 and sank after 16 minutes in the St. Vincent passage. | ||
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