Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	Panamanian
Built	1917	GRT	3,628

Date of attack	12 Mar 1942	Time	0005 1645 EST (e)
Fate	Sunk by submarine Enrico Tazzoli (C.C. Carlo Fecia di Cossato)
Position of attack	24° 10'N, 72° 55'W
Complement	30 (no casualties, 30 survivors)
Convoy
Notes	At 2145 hours on 11 March 1942, a vessel was sighted and the submarine closed, diving at 2250 hours to carry a submerged attack. At 2345 hours, tubes no.6 and no.7 were fired and both were claimed hits. The target was the Panamanian *Cygnet* (3,628 GRT, built 1917) with a Greek crew, bound from Georgetown (British Guyana) to Portland (Maine), but they reported only one torpedo hit at this time and the ship was still afloat. At 0005 hours, Enrico Tazzoli finished off the Panamian *Cygnet* by gunfire. All thirty of her crew were rescued by the British *Monarch of Nassau* and landed at Nassau (Bahamas). The survivors described the submarine as painted in light blue.