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was hit in the bows and was forced to stop to inspect the damage. She then managed to rejoin the convoy, but flooding in her holds forced the 56 crew and 12 passengers to abandon ship early on 29 August. The ship was then sunk with depth charges by
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twice and sinking her. The master, 39 crewmen, two gunners and one passenger abandoned ship, and were picked up by the British merchantman
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fired four single torpedoes at Convoy SL-118; and hit three ships. One torpedo damaged the 10,552-ton
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so badly that she was abandoned by her crew of 108 and was scuttled by gunfire from the corvette
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convoys SL-118 and SL-119, and sank six ships for a total of 41,984 
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remained afloat, but foundered two days later with the loss of 21 crew.
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fired a spread of three torpedoes at Convoy SL-119 west-north-west of
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and hit two ships; the 5,661-ton British merchant ship
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They attacked the 8: 411:torpedoed the 7,452-ton British merchantman 48:introducing citations to additional sources 1857: 1588: 1362: 915: 901: 893: 230: (GRT), and damaged one (10,552  415:, which was then abandoned by her crew. 38:Relevant discussion may be found on the 935:Atlantic U-boat campaign of World War I 472: 285:, Heinrich Müller-Edzards, 14–20 August 435:and the 8,424-ton Dutch merchant ship 346:struck first, while north-east of the 110: 940:Battle of the Atlantic (World War II) 508:"Peter-Erich Cremer (Knight's Cross)" 7: 876:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 872:"City of Cardiff (Steam merchant)" 850:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 824:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 798:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 772:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 746:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 720:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 694:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 668:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 642:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 616:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 590:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 564:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 538:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 512:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 486:German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net 407:The next day, 19 August, at 16:22 14: 1087:List of wolfpacks of World War II 820:"City of Manila (Steam merchant)" 690:"Harald Gelhaus (Knight's Cross)" 362:Cheshire, Hatarana and Balingkar 301:, Horst Dieterichs, 14–28 August 134: 125:14 August 1942 to 28 August 1942 31:relies largely or entirely on a 20: 454:. 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