At 14.02 hours on 10 Nov, 1942, the Start Point (Master David George Evans), dispersed from convoy ON-141, was hit amidships by one of two stern torpedoes from U-128 and sank by the bow southwest of the Cape Verde Islands after being hit near the bridge by a coup de grâce at 14.21 hours. The Germans questioned the survivors in two lifeboats and were told that the master went down with the ship. The chief officer George S. Johnson and chief engineer J.O. Jones were taken prisoner, transferred to U-462 (Vowe) the same day, landed at St. Nazaire on 7 December and taken to the POW camp Milag Nord. One crewman died in one of the lifeboats. 38 crew members and seven gunners were picked up after 12 days by the British merchant Eskdalegate and landed at Pernambuco.

According to the second mate, the master and the first mate were raving drunk and obnoxious most of the time and the conditions on board apalling. Apparently the master fell overboard when leaving the ship and drowned. He also claims that the first mate was responsible for loosing the motor lifeboat through his incompentency and that he tried to convince the other survivors to tell the Germans that the second mate is the chief officer.