Fort Chilcotin
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| Name | Fort Chilcotin | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant (North Sands) | ||
| Tonnage | 7,133 tons | ||
| Completed | 1942 - West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd, Vancouver | ||
| Owner | H. Hogarth & Sons Ltd, Glasgow | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 24 Jul 1943 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-172 (Carl Emmermann) | ||
| Position | 15.03S, 32.35W - Grid FR 1517 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 57 (4 dead and 53 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | JT-2 (dispersed) | ||
| Route | Rio de Janeiro (19 Jul) - Freetown - UK | ||
| Cargo | 9103 tons of rock crystal and iron ore | ||
| History | Completed June 1942 for US War Shipping Administration (WSA), lend-leased on bareboat charter to British Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 20.59 hours on 24 Jul, 1943, the Fort Chilcotin (Master John Kerr), dispersed from convoy JT-2, was torpedoed and sunk by U-172 about 420 miles east-southeast of Bahia. The master, 41 crew members and 11 gunners were picked up on 29 July by the Argentinian tanker Tacito and landed at Rio de Janeiro on 1 August. Four crew members were lost. | ||
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