At 03.40 hours on 12 May 1942 the Cocle (Master Gottfried Sandnes) in station #84 of convoy ONS-92 was hit by two G7e torpedoes from U-94 about 740 miles southeast of Cape Farewell. The ship tried to evade the attack by turning away at full speed after lookouts spotted a periscope and then the torpedo tracks, but the torpedoes struck amidships and further aft and caused her to sink slowly by the stern. The third engineer and three crew members were lost. The surviving crew members and gunners (the ship was armed with one 4in and four machine guns) abandoned ship in the lifeboats and rafts in fine weather and smooth sea after the radio operator sent a distress signal without receiving a reply. The 38 survivors were picked up by the British rescue ship Bury (Master Lawrence Edwin Brown, OBE) and landed at St. Johns on 16 May. One of the rescued men was so badly injured that he had to be lifted aboard the rescue ship in a stretcher and was immediately operated by the doctor, but died whilst under ether anesthesia and was buried at sea later that day in 52°04N/33°26W.