At 07.20 hours on 23 Jun, 1942, the Andrea Brøvig (Master Selmer L. Pedersen) was torpedoed, shelled and sunk by U-128 off Trinidad. The survivors later reported that the U-boat fired on the lifeboats with machine guns, but missed (Perhaps some shots fired at the tanker hit the water near the boats and the crew thought they were the target).

On 25 June, the survivors reached Trinidad and get aboard the American passenger ship Robert E. Lee, which was sunk by U-166 (Kuhlmann) en route to New Orleans with 268 passengers (mostly survivors of other sinkings) on 30 July. All Norwegian passengers were saved.

The engineers from Andrea Brøvig worked later on the Norwegian motor merchant Balla (2565grt), which was equipped with two German motors from 1930, a type meant for U-boats. This vessel had to be laid up in the USA during 1942, due the continued problems with her engines, but the engineers from the tanker kept them running.