The SS Robin Goodfellow was operated by the Seas Shipping Co. of New York, primarily carrying cargo for US Steel. It was sunk on 7/25/44 by a single torpedo from u-boat U-862. At the time it was carrying over 8600 tons of chrome ore and wa steaming from Capetown to Bahia Brazil and on to NY.
The sole captain of U-862 during her entire career of just two patrols starting on May 1944 was Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Timm. He survived the war, went back to Germany and lived the rest of his life there. All the rest of the crew also survived their time as POW's in Singapore. No all of them returned to Germany.
That u-boat was transferred to the Imperial Japanese Navy in Singapore on May 1945 after Germany's surrender. She was re-designated I-502, and the Japanese surrendered her to the allies in Singapore in August of 1945. The boat was subsequently scuttled in the Strait of Malacca in February 1946.
Anyway, moving on. The wreck of the Robin Goodfellow is located near 20° 03'S, 14° 21'W, smack in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean, about halfway between Capetown and the easternmost point in Brazil.
The approximate location is documented because the British motor merchant Priam received a distress signal from them, but was never able to find any survivors. The distress call had the location, of course, which was dutifully logged by the Priam's master. It is interesting to note that the ship's complement included 27 armed guards; US Naval Reserve officers and enlisted men. The ship was armed; one 4" gun, one 3" gun, and five 20mm antiaircraft guns. No wonder it was targetted by the sub.
The bathymetry database at NOAA shows the average estimated depth at that location is around 3,600 meters or so. The ship was pretty big, steel hull, almost 7,000 ton displacement, 129.5m x 16.8m x 10.2m.
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