On 18 Aug, 1944, the Nairung (Master John Murray) was torpedoed by U-862 from a distance of roughly 1000 metres northeast of Mozambique. The ship blew up in such a violent explosion that some crewmen aboard the U-boat thought that they had been struck by their own torpedo, while debris struck the U-boat without damaging her. Timm inspected the location of the sinking, but no survivors were found. The engineers recovered some copper wire from wreckage.