Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	Norwegian
Built	1930	GRT	6,161

Date of attack	6 Aug 1942	Time	1048
Fate	Sunk by submarine Enrico Tazzoli (C.C. Carlo Fecia di Cossato)
Position of attack	10° 25'N, 57° 10'W
Complement	34 (2 dead and 32 survivors)
Convoy
Notes	At 0945 hours, a dark shape was observed at a distance of 8,000 metres. Enrico Tazzoli closed and identified it as a tanker. At 1031 hours, torpedoes from no.3 and no.4 tubes were fired but missed. The target was the derelict Norwegian *Havsten* (6,161 GRT, built 1930). She had been torpedoed by U-160 (OL Georg Lassen) on 3rd August and had been abandoned. Of her crew, two had been killed, two captured and thirty were later rescued. Fecia di Cossato did not mention any survivors. At 1048 hours, Enrico Tazzoli turned to deliver two stern shots. They both hit after 35 and 38 seconds. A third stern torpedo was fired at 1108 hours and missed. *Havsten* finally sank at 1115 hours.