Italian submarine fates
Ships hit by Italian submarines
Chile
Type | Cargo ship | |||
Country | Danish | |||
Built | 1915 | GRT | 6,956 | |
Date of attack | 8 Jun 1942 | Time | 0005 | |
Fate | Sunk by submarine Leonardo da Vinci (C.C. Luigi Longanesi Cattani) | |||
Position of attack | 4° 17'N, 13° 17'W | |||
Complement | 44 (5 dead and 39 survivors) | |||
Convoy | ||||
Notes | At 1815 hours on 7 June 1942, a four-masted 9,000-ton vessel was sighted. Da Vinci took an interception course. At 2328 hours, a pair of torpedoes was fired but missed. This was the Danish Chile (6,956 GRT, built 1915). She was on a trip to Liverpool carrying 6,380 tons of ground nuts, 2,500 tons of pig iron and 800 tons of cotton seed. At 0005 hours on 8th June, a second pair of torpedoes was fired. Both hit on the port side of the engine room and she sank. Five were killed. The thirty-nine survivors were picked up by the trawler HMT Spaniard. |