Italian submarine fates

Ships hit by Italian submarines

Type	Cargo ship
Country	Danish
Built	1915	GRT	6,956

Date of attack	8 Jun 1942	Time	0005
Fate	Sunk by submarine Leonardo da Vinci (C.C. Luigi Longanesi Cattani)
Position of attack	4° 17'N, 13° 17'W
Complement	44 (5 dead and 39 survivors)
Convoy
Notes	At 1815 hours on 7 June 1942, a four-masted 9,000-ton vessel was sighted. Da Vinci took an interception course. At 2328 hours, a pair of torpedoes was fired but missed. This was the Danish *Chile* (6,956 GRT, built 1915). She was on a trip to Liverpool carrying 6,380 tons of ground nuts, 2,500 tons of pig iron and 800 tons of cotton seed. At 0005 hours on 8th June, a second pair of torpedoes was fired. Both hit on the port side of the engine room and she sank. Five were killed. The thirty-nine survivors were picked up by the trawler HMT Spaniard.