[2][3][4] Taber Park was on a voyage from Port of Tyne to London with coal.

She was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea (52°22′N 1°53′E / 52.367°N 1.883°E / 52.367; 1.883) by a Kriegsmarine midget submarine.

[6] The lost are remembered in The Royal Canadian Naval Ships Memorial Monument in Spencer Smith Park in Burlington, Ontario.

The American ships carried Naval Armed Guard gunners.

In doing this they sustained a considerably greater casualty rate than almost every branch of the armed services and suffered great hardship.