Colombia
Panamanian Motor merchant
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| Name | Colombia | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 1,064 tons | ||
| Completed | 1939 - Öresundsvarvet A/B, Landskrona | ||
| Owner | Cia de Navegacion y Tierras Elliot SA, Panama | ||
| Homeport | Panama | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Dec 1943 | Nationality:  Panamanian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-516 (Hans-Rutger Tillessen) | ||
| Position | 9° 50'N, 78° 55'W - Grid EL 3156 | ||
| Complement | 27 (4 dead and 23 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Barranquilla - Cristobal | ||
| Cargo | 14,800 bags of coffee and 330 bundles of cinchona bark | ||
| History | Completed in March 1939 | ||
| Notes on event | At 11.15 hours on 8 December 1943 the unescorted Colombia was hit in the bow by one of two torpedoes fired by U-516 and sank about 20 miles north of San Blas Point. The survivors made landfall on Porvenir Island the next day and USS SC-1023 was sent from Cristobal to pick them up, but the ship ran aground at Mandinga Point. USS PC-466 eventually recovered the submarine chaser and both vessels returned to Cristobal with the survivors from Colombia on 11 December. | ||
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