At 02.31 hours on 8 Oct 1942 the unescorted Koumoundouros (Master N. Logothetis), armed with four machine guns, was hit on the starboard side aft in the boiler room by one torpedo from U-68 while steaming on a non-evasive course at 8 knots about 20 miles southwest of Cape Point, South Africa. The ship had been missed by two torpedoes at 01.22 and 02.17 hours. The phosphorescent trail of the second one had been spotted by a lookout, but no action was taken as they assumed that it was a dolphin. At 03.13 hours, the U-boat fired a coup de grâce after the crew abandoned ship and hit the vessel again aft, causing her to sink by the stern in a few minutes. The third engineer and four crewmen on watch below were lost. The survivors were not questioned by the Germans as they rowed away from the sinking ship in the darkness. The boats set sail and were shortly thereafter sighted by aircraft and later that day picked up by HMAS Nizam (G 38) (Cdr M.J. Clark, DSO, RAN) and HMS Foxhound (H 69) (LtCdr G.H. Peters, RN) and landed at Capetown on 9 October.