Confield
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| Name | Confield | ||
| Type: | Steam merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 4.956 tons | ||
| Completed | 1940 - J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland | ||
| Owner | E.J. Sutton & Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne | ||
| Homeport | Newcastle | ||
| Date of attack | 8 Oct, 1940 | Nationality:  British | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-58 (Heinrich Schonder) | ||
| Position | 56.48N, 10.17W - Grid AM 29 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 37 (1 dead and 36 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | HX-76 (straggler) | ||
| Route | Port Alberni, British Columbia - Halifax - Portishead | ||
| Cargo | 5800 tons of timber, 2000 tons of grain and 300 tons of lead | ||
| History | | ||
| Notes on loss | At 21.31 hours on 8 Oct, 1940, the Confield (Master Walter Austin Sage), a straggler from convoy HX-76, was hit by two single torpedoes from U-58 88 miles west of Barra Head. In the morning of 9 October, U-58 hit the vessel with a coup de grāce and the Confield was abandoned, but remained afloat. The wreck was later shelled and sunk by the British sloop HMS Weston (L 72) (Cdr J.G. Sutton). The master and four crew members were picked up by the sloop and 31 crew members by the British corvette HMS Periwinkle (K 55) (LtCdr P.G. MacIver) and landed at Londonderry. One crew member was lost. | ||
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