Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	British
Built	1928	GRT	3,845

Date of attack	3 Nov 1942	Time	1842 1800 GMT (e)
Fate	Sunk by submarine Ammiraglio Cagni (C.F. Carlo Liannazza)
Position of attack	2° 35'S, 18° 31'W
Complement	54 (10 dead and 44 survivors)
Convoy
Notes	At 1130 hours, two masts were sighted on the horizon. Cagni proceeded at 15 knots to take a position ahead of the vessel. At 1703 hours, the submarine submerged for the attack. At 1842 hours, three bow torpedoes (450mm, W 200 type) were fired from 400 metres. All three hit and she sank. This was the British *Dagomba* (3,845 GRT, built 1928) on passage from Takoradi to Trinidad. Ten killed, twenty-one survivors were rescued by the Portuguese sloop Bartolomeu Dias at 0530 hours on 14th November in 07°05' N, 16°00' W. Twenty-three survivors in a lifeboat were picked up by a Vichy patrol vessel and landed at Dakar. They were interned for a few days before being liberated when the Allies landed in North Africa on 8th November.