Caribou
| Name | Caribou | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,222 tons | ||
| Completed | 1925 - New Waterway Shipbuilding Co, Schiedam | ||
| Owner | Government of Newfoundland, St.Johns | ||
| Homeport | St.Johns | ||
| Date of attack | 14 Oct 1942 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-69 (Ulrich Gräf) | ||
| Position | 47.19N, 59.29W - Grid BB 5198 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 237 (136 dead and 101 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | NL-9 | ||
| Route | Sydney - Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland | ||
| Cargo | 118 service personnel and 73 passengers | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.21 hours on 14 Oct, 1942, the railway ferry Caribou (Master Benjamin Taverner) in convoy NL-9 was torpedoed and sunk by U-69 in the Cabot Strait. The master, 30 crew members, 57 service personnel and 48 passengers were lost. 15 crew members, 61 service personnel and 25 passengers were picked up by the HMCS Grandmere (J 258) (Lt J.S.C. Cuthbert) and landed at Sydney the same day. | ||
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