At 01.16 hours on 13 Jan, 1942, the Frisco (Master Thor Thorsen) was hit on the port side ahead of the bridge by one torpedo from U-130 off Nova Scotia. Due to the proximity of the coast the U-boat fired a coup de grâce from a stern tube after 5 minutes that hit on the port side aft of the bridge and set the vessel on fire and causing her to list heavily to port. The master, two officers and one crewman had been killed in the attack while the surviving crew members abandoned ship in two lifeboats. In the afternoon of 14 January, six survivors in one of the lifeboats were picked up by the Faroese sailing vessel Mjoanes in 46°24N/57°20W and taken to North Sydney, arriving two days later. Another lifeboat with 9 men was never seen again.