Tabitha Brown
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| Name | Tabitha Brown | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (Liberty) | ||
| Tonnage | 7,176 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - Oregon Shipbuilding Co, Portland OR | ||
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| Date of attack | 9 Mar 1943 | Nationality: | |
| Fate | Damaged by U-510 (Karl Neitzel) | ||
| Position | 07.11N, 52.30W - Grid EP 4168 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | ? men (0 dead and ? survivors). | ||
| Convoy | BT-6 | ||
| Route | Suez - Table Bay - Paramaribo | ||
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| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.06, 03.07 and 03.10 hours on 9 Mar, 1943, U-510 fired torpedoes at the 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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