FORT BATLE RIVER

FORT BATLE RIVER 7200 tons built in 1942 At 15.20 hours on 6 Mar, 1943, U-410 attacked the convoy KMS-10 west of Gibraltar and reported two ships damaged and one possible hit on a third ship. In fact, the Fort Battle River was sunk 50 miles SW Cape S. Vicente and the Fort Paskoyac was damaged. The master Albert Victor Parkinson Turnbull, 45 crew members, 10 gunners and nine passengers (army personnel) from the Fort Battle River were picked up by the Canadian corvette HMCS Shediac (K 110) (Lt J.E. Clayton) and the British merchant Empire Flamingo and landed at Gibraltar.