Photo. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/303714/
Built: 1940
Tonnage: 3,663 / 7,200 tons
Cargo: 5,002 tons of chrome ore, 637 tons of asbestos, 124 tons of lead and copper concentrates
Route: Basra - Bandar Abbas -Table Bay - Bahia - Trinidad - Philadelphia
Sunk 20 MAR 43 by U-516 on pos 27º 35” S 14º 22”E
10 Dead
37 Survivors
At 04.58 hours on 20 March 1943 the unescorted Nortun (Master Peder Torstein Inderberg), dispersed from convoy CN-13 on 20 March, was hit aft by one torpedo from U-516 about 70 miles southwest of Luderitz Bay. The explosion broke the back of the ship which sank quickly after most of the crew abandoned ship in the lifeboats. The master, seven crew members and two gunners were lost. The survivors were questioned by the Germans and later landed at Luderitz.
By Nortun (Panamanian Steam merchant) - Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net