Italian submarine fates
Ships hit by Italian submarines
Ilvington Court
| Type | Cargo ship | |||
| Country |  British | |||
| Built | 1919 | GRT | 5,187 | |
| Date of attack | 26 Aug 1940 | Time | 2000 | |
| Fate | Sunk by submarine Dandolo (C.C. Riccardo Boris) | |||
| Position of attack | 37° 13'N, 21° 43'W | |||
| Complement | 46 (no casualties, 46 survivors) | |||
| Convoy | ||||
| Notes | At 1800 hours, a steamer was observed zigzagging and Dandolo maneuvered to take a position ahead of her for attack. She appeared to be an 8,000-ton armed steamer. At 2000 hours, a single torpedo (533mm, W type) was fired and struck the vessel in the aft hold and she sank in ten minutes. The victim was the British Ilvington Court (5.187 GRT, built 1919) carrying a cargo of iron ore from Freetown to Cardiff. Her crew of forty-six managed to reach Santa Maria Island (Azores) on 29th August. | |||