Crown Arun
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| Name | Crown Arun | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,372 tons | ||
| Completed | 1938 - AG Neptun Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik, Rostock | ||
| Owner | Christian Salvesen & Co, Edinburgh | ||
| Homeport | London | ||
| Date of attack | 17 Sep 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-99 (Otto Kretschmer) | ||
| Position | 58.02N, 14.18W - Grid AM 1734 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 25 (0 dead and 25 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-71 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Gaspe, New Brunswick - Halifax (5 Sep) - Hull | ||
| Cargo | 2800 tons of pit props | ||
| History | On 9 Sep, 1939, the German Hannah Böge of Johann M.K. Blumenthal, Hamburg was captured by HMS Somali (F 33) (Capt R.S.G. Nicholson, DSO, DSC) in the Atlantic and taken to Kirkwall by a prize crew. The vessel was renamed Crown Arun by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). | ||
| Notes on loss | At 08.32 hours on 17 Sep, 1940, the Crown Arun (Master Hugh Laurence Leaske), a straggler from convoy HX-71, was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire by U-99 north of Rockall. The master and 24 crew members were picked up by HMS Winchelsea (D 46) (LtCdr W.A. Hawkins, DSC) and landed at Liverpool. | ||
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