The story
German submarine U-510 damaged British motor tanker Alexia with 3 torpedoes 50 miles east of Antigua at 0215 hours. German submarines U-660 and U-438 attacked Allied convoy SC-94 500 miles west of Ireland; at 1220 hours, U-438 damaged Greek merchant ship Condylis; at 1221 hours, U-660 sank Condylis, sank British merchant ship Empire Reindeer (all 65 aboard survived), British merchant ship Cape Race (all 63 aboard survived), and fatally damaged British merchant ship Oregon (2 were killed, 36 survived); at 1629 hours, U-438 sank the already-abandoned Oregon. At 1850 hours, U-155 sank Dutch merchant ship Strabo with her deck gun northeast of Paramaribo, Suriname; all 13 aboard survived. At 2130 hours, U-600 stopped British sailing vessel Vivian P. Smith with a warning shot from her deck gun 140 miles east of Turks and Caicos Islands; after the crew of 11 abandoned ship, Vivian P. Smith was scuttled by U-600's deck gun. Also on this day, Italian submarine Reginaldo Giuliani sank British merchant ship Medon with her deck gun 1,500 miles east of Trinidad; all 64 aboard survived.
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