Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	Turkish
Built	1893	GRT	3,723

Date of attack	12 Jul 1942	Time	2004 2105 (e)
Fate	Damaged by submarine Alagi (T.V. Sergio Puccini)
Position of attack	34° 59'N, 35° 32'E
Complement
Convoy
Notes	At 1935 hours, an illuminated ship was sighted at a distance of 10,000 metres. Twenty minutes later, it was identified as an 8-10,000-ton tanker and shortly after recognised as Turkish. She was steering 200° at 12 knots. At 2004 hours, two torpedoes (533mm) were fired from bow tubes at a distance of 400 metres. About 20 seconds later, a double explosion occurred. This was the Turkish *Antares* (3,723 GRT, 1893) on a trip from Alexandretta to Haifa. She was hit by only one torpedo, in the engine room and, had to be beached in 34°48'50" N, 35°52' E, near Tartus, Syria. Refloated on 27th July, with the assistance of the HM tug *Henrietta Moller, HM tug Tientsin, the armed whaler HMSAS Southern Isles* and the Free French armed trawler Reine des Flots, she was towed to Iskanderun.