Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	British
Built	1925	GRT	3,660

Date of attack	19 Dec 1940	Time	2010 1914 (e)
Fate	Sunk by submarine Alpino Attilio Bagnolini (C.C. Franco Tosoni Pittoni)
Position of attack	53° 55'N, 16° 37'W
Complement	36 (36 dead, no survivors)
Convoy	ex-S.C.13.
Notes	At 1750 hours, a steamer was sighted at a distance of 9,000 metres. Bagnolini closed submerged at full speed. At 1915 hours, the vessel could no longer be seen seen throught the periscope and the submarine surfaced. At 2010 hours, a torpedo (533mm) was fired from a bow tube at a distance estimated at 1,400 metres. It hit after 80 seconds, giving a range of 1,650 metres, and the vessel sank after 20 minutes. Due to the delay, C.C. Tosoni Pittoni had assumed that it had missed and ordered the firing of a second torpedo (533mm) 70 seconds after the first one. It missed. The victim was the British *Amicus* (3,660 GRT, built 1925) detached from convoy S.C.13. She was also reported, in error, as the British *Amiens* (1,548 GRT, built 1918). HMS Westcott was sent to her assistance. There were no survivors of her crew of thirty-six.