Waroonga
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| Name | Waroonga | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 9.365 tons | ||
| Completed | 1914 - W. Denny & Bros, Dumbarton | ||
| Owner | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London | ||
| Homeport | Plymouth | ||
| Date of attack | 5 Apr, 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-630 (Werner Winkler) | ||
| Position | 57.10N, 35.30W - Grid AK 0114 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 132 (19 dead and 113 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-231 | ||
| Route | Sydney, NSW - Panama - New York (25 Mar) - Liverpool | ||
| Cargo | 5000 tons of butter, 1500 tons of lead, 1000 tons of canned meat, 1000 tons of beef and 218 bags of mail | ||
| History | In 1939 the Hororata of New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, London was sold to British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London and renamed Waroonga. | ||
| Notes on loss | In the late evening on 4 Apr, 1943, U-635 (Eckelmann) attacked the convoy HX-231 in grid AK 0117 and reported two ships with 13.000 tons sunk. At 01.58 hours on 5 April, U-630 also attacked two ships from the same convoy southeast of Cape Farewell, heard two detonations and sinking noises and reported one ship sunk and another probably sunk. The ships were Shillong and Waroonga, which had both been damaged in the attack of U-635 earlier. The Waroonga (Master Charles Campbell Taylor) was scuttled by HMS Loosestrife (K 105) (Lt A.A. Campbell) in the morning on 6 April. Twelve crew members, one gunner and six passengers (one DBS) were lost. The master, 97 crew members, seven gunners and eight passengers (two DBS) were picked up by the corvette and the American steam merchant Joel Roger Poinsett and landed at Londonderry on 9 April. | ||
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