At 06.15 hours on 31 Aug 1940 the S.S. Har Zion (Master John N. Beighton), a straggler from convoy OB-205, was hit amidships by one of two G7e torpedoes from U-38 and sank by the stern northwest of Bloody Foreland (north of Ireland). The master, 34 crew members and one gunner were lost. The sole survivor was seaman Osman Adem, who was picked up by the ORP Blyskawica (LtCdr S. Hryniewiecki, ORP) the next day.

[https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/503.html, retrieved 5/12/22]

"CAPTAIN BEIGHTON'S DEATH The death of a former New Zealand master mariner, Captain John Beighton, R.N.R., has now been officially confirmed. Captain Beighton and his crew were lost when his vessel was destroyed by enemy action in the Atlantic about August 31, 1940. Captain Beighton, who was the only son of the late Mr. John Beighton, a pioneer of Central Otago, served his apprenticeship on the barque Onyx and joined the Union Steam Ship Company. He was chief officer of the steamers Atua and Tofua, in the Island trade, before becoming master of the Squall and later of the Taviuni. In 1913 he joined the Sydney pilot service and during the Great War was commander of Australian troopships. Following the war he was master of the Largs Bay and also of the Shaw Savill and Albion steamer Ferndale." [AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXXII, ISSUE 201, 26 AUGUST 1941, PAGE 8]