SS Hoihow

History
United Kingdom
Name	SS Hoihow
Owner	China Navigation Company Ltd., London
Builder	Ltd., Hong Kong
Completed	1933
Fate	Sunk 2 July 1943
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ship
Tonnage	2,798 gross register tons
Propulsion	Steam engine

SS Hoihow was a British passenger ship built in 1933 in Hong Kong by the Ltd. in 1933 for The China Navigation Company of London^[1] to operate on the Indochina trade.^{[citation needed][2]}

During World War II, Hoihow was used to carry food to the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

At 02:00 on 1 July 1943, the German submarine U-181 sighted three Allied merchant ships – Hoihow, under Master William Mackensie Christie, among them – in port at Port Louis, Mauritius. U-181′s commanding officer, Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang Lüth, decided to loiter offshore and wait for them to leave port. On the morning of 2 July 1943, two of them put to sea, and U-181 set out in pursuit of the second to leave, which was Hoihow. After a 10-hour chase, at 21:07 on 2 July U-181 hit Hoihow with two torpedoes in the Indian Ocean 105 nautical miles (194 km) north-northwest of Mauritius. Hoihow sank by the bow at

19°30′S 55°30′E / 19.500°S 55.500°E / -19.500; 55.500 with the loss of 145 of the 149 people aboard, including Christie, 90 crew members, seven naval gunners, and 47 passengers. The four survivors – three crew members and a passenger – were rescued by the American merchant ship , which put them ashore at Montevideo, Uruguay, on 25 July 1943.^[1]

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