Fort Cedar Lake
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| Name | Fort Cedar Lake | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (North Sands) | ||
| Tonnage | 7.134 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd, North Vancouver | ||
| Owner | Hain SS Co, London | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Mar, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-665 (Hans-Jürgen Haupt) | ||
| Position | 52.14N, 32.15W - Grid BD 2113 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 50 (0 dead and 50 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | SC-122 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Vancouver - Panama - New York (5 Mar) - Belfast Lough | ||
| Cargo | General cargo | ||
| History | Completed December 1942 for US War Shipping Administration (WSA), lend-leased on bareboat charter to British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 03.05 hours on 17 Mar, 1943, U-338 (Kinzel) fired a spread of two torpedoes at the convoy SC-122 southeast of Cape Farewell (grid AK 8599) and Kinzel thought that he had hit one ship, but in fact the Kingsbury in station #51 and the King Gruffydd in station #52 were hit and sunk. At 03.06 hours, a second spread of two torpedoes was fired, one of them struck the Alderamin in station #61, which sank later in 51°30N/34°55W. At 03.07 hours, the stern torpedo was fired, which missed the intended target, the Alderamin, but damaged the Fort Cedar Lake in station #124. The Fort Cedar Lake (Master Charles Lloyde Collings) on her maiden voyage fell behind the convoy and was finished off by U-665 with a coup de grāce at 11.57 hours. The master, 42 crew members and seven gunners were picked up by the British rescue ship Zamalek (Master Owen Charles Morris DSO) and landed at Gourock on 22 March. | ||
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