Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	Yugoslavian
Built	1901	GRT	2,520

Date of attack	14 Aug 1941	Time	1509+ 1300 GMT (e)
Fate	Sunk by submarine Guglielmo Marconi (T.V. Mario Paolo Pollina)
Position of attack	40° 45'N, 17° 45'W
Complement	33 (no casualties, 33 survivors)
Convoy	ex-H.G. 70
Notes	At 0910 hours, a smoke was sighted on the horizon. At 1201 hours, Marconi had maneuvered ahead of the vessel and submerged to launch a submerged attack. At 1339 hours, two torpedoes were fired from the forward tubes at a distance of 600 metres. They both missed. This was the Yugoslav *Sud* (2,520 GRT, built 1901) on her way to Halifax after leaving convoy H.G.70. From 1434 to 1509 hours, the submarine opened fire from a distance of 3,500 to 4,000 metres, damaging the steamer. One lifeboat was observed to have been lowered in the sea. Shortly after, a second one followed. The vessel was on fire and listing to port but remained afloat. At 1509 hours, a torpedo was fired from a bow tube at a distance of 600 metres. It missed under. At about the same time, more rounds were fired near the waterline, creating ten holes. The freighter began to sink slowly. U-126 (KL Ernst Bauer) arrived (in 40°48' N, 17°45' W) and also hit her with gunfire claiming the sinking (Rohwer attributes only damage to Marconi and the sinking to U-126). The entire crew of thirty-three was picked up by the Portuguese *Alferrarede* and landed at Horta.