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Thursday, 10 September 2026

British cargo ship mv Hylton torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 83 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 27 March-3 April 1941

An item reported that on 29 March was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine the British merchant ship mv Hylton, tonnage 5,917 tons , loaded with wheat and lumber , underway from Vancouver, Canada to the Tyne, part of convoy yes, on the position 570 miles north west of Bloody Foreland. Crew landed at Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-16-1. 

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