At 20.00 hours on 29 July 1942 the unescorted Bill (Master Christian Hartvig Evensen) was hit on the port side amidships in #3 hold by one torpedo from U-155 and sank after eight minutes about 170 miles southeast of Barbados. The Brazilian mess boy was killed. The master was taken prisoner by the U-boat, which then left the area after the survivors in three lifeboats had been given the course for Barbados. He was later taken to a hospital in Rennes where he died of heart trouble on 27 November 1942. The three lifeboats were later separated, but all occupants survived: Seven survivors were picked up by the American steam merchant West Durfee on 1 August, eight others made landfall at Grenada on 3 August and the remaining men landed on St. Vincent.