Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	British
Built	1924	GRT	2,104

Date of attack	24 Mar 1941	Time	1725
Fate	Sunk by submarine Veniero (C.C. Manlio Petroni)
Position of attack	48° 50'N, 22° 45'W
Complement	28 (28 dead, no survivors)
Convoy
Notes	At 1609 hours, a vessel was observed at a distance of 8,000 metres. It tried to escape. At 1630 hours, Veniero opened fire. She stopped and was abandoned. This was the British steamer *Agnete Maersk* (2,104 GRT, built 1924), a straggler from convoy O.G.56. Shortly after, Veniero fired two torpedoes at *Agnete Maersk* to finish her off. They missed under. At 1650 hours, gunfire was resumed to try to finish off *Agnete Maersk* but she still did not sink. At 1656 hours, a third torpedo was fired, but it also missed under. At 1725 hours, gunfire was resumed again and this time *Agnete Maersk* was set afire and sank. Twenty-eight men were killed, there were no survivors.