German submarines up scaling activities in the Atlantic Theater according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 23 February 1942

An item reported that the German submarines were especially active over the weekend in the Atlantic theater. Many contacts were reported and at least six Allied merchant ships were sunk. Two ships part of an escorted convoy were lost, another ship off British Guiana, one in the latitude of New York, one in the Florida Straits, one in the Central Caribbean and one off Trinidad mostly suffering heavy personnel losses.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR0423. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 75 dated 23 February 1942

British cargo ship Nestlea lost according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 64 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 14-21 November 1940

An item reported the loss on 18 November of the British cargo ship Nestlea, Tonnage 4,274 tons, loaded with margarine, underway from Takoradi, Gold Coast [Ghana] to the United Kingdom sunk when bombed by aircraft on the position 48 miles south west of Fastnet. Part of convoy. Two boatloads with survivors were sailing landwards.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37. 

British cargo ship Kohinur lost according to the War Cabinet Weekly Résumé No. 64 of the Naval, Military and Air Situation 14-21 November 1940

An item reported the loss on 15 November of the British cargo ship Kohinur, tonnage 5,168 tons, underway from Glasgow, Scotland to Takoradi, Gold Coast [Ghana] sunk by a submarine on the position 220 miles south of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Not part of a convoy. Of the crew 35 men were landed at Freetown.

Source

National Archive UK. CAB-66-13-37. 

German Togoland 1884-1914

Protectorate of the German Empire between 1884-1914 which was etsablished with creating two seperate protectorates. Invaded by British and French military forces after the First World War broke out (29 July 1914) on7 August and placed under military rule. Divided by the United Kingdom and France in two seperative administrative zones which was formalised in 1922 under a League of Nations mandate with creating British Togoland bordering the Gold Coast (integrated in Ghana in 1957) and French Togoland 2/3 of the land including Lomé bordering Dahomey (integrated in the Republic of Togo in 1960.  

Former British ship of the line Victor Emanuel converted into hospital ship according to the Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder courant dated 24 October 1873

An item dated London the 20th reported that the ship of the line Victor Emanuel was being fitted out to serve in the expedition against the Ashanti on the Gold Coast, West Africa (1). She was to be used to accommodate sick men.

Notes
1. This was screw steam 2nd rate ship of the line of which the building at the Pembroke Dockyard was ordered on 4 April 1851, laid down on 16 May two years later, launched on 27 February 1855 as the Repulse, renamed on 7 December Victor Emanuel and commissioned on 9 September 1858. Since 1873 served as hospital and receiving ship and finally sold in 1899.
2. The Second Ashanti War was in in 1873-1874. The Ashanti were finally beaten in 1896 and their territory became a protectorate under the governor of the British Gold Coast. In 1956 was British Togoland added to the British Gold Coast since 1957 known as Ghana. The Danish Gold Coast and the Dutch Gold Coast were added in 1850 respectively 1871 to the British Gold Coast.

New troop transport for England according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 22 October 1873

An item reported that the British cabinet was negotiating the building of a steam troop transport of 2,000 tons towards the Gold Coast with accommodation for 25 officers. Another new transport of 800 was to be used as victualler.(1)

Note

1. Gold Coast part of what nowadays is Ghana was a British colony between 1867 and 1957 and to which in 1872 the Dutch Golden Coast (including the once Portuguese fortress d’Elima) was added. British Togoland which was a former Germany colony was since 1919 linked to Gold Coast and in 1956 incorporated.