Aviemore
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| Name | Aviemore | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.060 tons | ||
| Completed | 1920 - Irvine´s Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Co Ltd, Middleton Shipyard, West Hartlepool | ||
| Owner | Furness, Withy & Co Ltd, Liverpool | ||
| Homeport | Liverpool | ||
| Date of attack | 16 Sep, 1939 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-31 (Johannes Habekost) | ||
| Position | 49.11N, 13.38W - Grid BE 3850 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 34 (23 dead and 11 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | OB-4 | ||
| Route | Swansea - Montevideo - Buenos Aires | ||
| Cargo | 5105 tons of tinplate and black sheets | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.15 hours on 16 Sep, 1939, U-31 fired two torpedoes at the convoy OB-4 220 miles southwest of Cape Clear and claimed one ship sunk and another damaged, because Habekost heard two detonations. But both torpedoes hit the Aviemore (Master Morton Forsythe) and sank her immediately. The master and 22 crew members were lost. Eleven crew members were picked up by the British destroyer HMS Warwick (D 25) (LtCdr M.A.G. Child) and landed at Liverpool on 18 September. This was the first attack on a convoy in World War II. | ||
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