Career SS Orizaba (1939)

approximate position of orizaba s wreck off northern norway

on 11 february royal navy destroyer captured morea , french sloop captured rostock. on 21 february royal navy cruiser hms manchester , 2 destroyers captured wahehe southeast of iceland prize ship. on 26 february 1940 orizaba ran aground off coast of troms in northern norway. finnish cargo ship margareta rescued survivors. on 3 march cruiser hms york intercepted arucas southeast of iceland. arucas crew scuttled , york rescued 39 of them, 3 lost.

only wangoni made germany. on 28 february submarine hms triton intercepted off kristiansand in southern norway, cargo ship escaped under cover of darkness , on 1 march made port @ hamburg.