HMS P 32 (Lt. David Anthony Baily Abdy, RN) left Malta for a patrol off Tripoli on 12 August 1941. On the 18th she sighted a convoy of five merchant vessels heading towards Tripoli under escort of the Italian destroyers Freccia, Euro, Dardo and the Italian torpedo boats Procione, Pegaso and Sirtori. As the submarine returned to periscope depth, to check the convoy’s position, she struck a mine on the port side. The submarine took a heavy list to port sank about 15 nautical miles east-north-east of Tripoli, Libya in position 33º02'N, 13º10'E. Only two men (the commanding officer and the coxswain) managed to escape from the sunken submarine.