Convoy ON 67 - U-155

U-155 found and reported the convoy on 21 February. Toward obtained a bearing on the contact report, and Lea searched the bearing unsuccessfully at dusk. U-155 approached the port quarter of the convoy in the pre-dawn hours of 22 February and torpedoed the British tanker Adellen and Norwegian freighter Sama. Both ships sank quickly. Algoma rescued eleven of Adellens crew of 31 while Nicholson and Toward found twenty survivors from Samas crew of forty. U-155 crash-dived to avoid Bernadou, but the destroyer never saw the U-boat. U-155 made another emergency dive while shadowing the convoy at 1042, but Edison did not detect the U-boat. U-587, U-69, and U-558 found the convoy on 23 February.

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