An item reported that a fourth freighter of the Trans-Atlantic convoy mentioned in the summary of 9 August was sunk by an enemy submarine. The four ships and the damaged one were on 9 August by daylight attacked by minimum 2 submarines probably when the visibility conditions were low. A corvette escorting the convoy managed to ram and sunk one of the two sighted submarines. This eastbound convoy was earlier attacked on 5 August and followed by the submarines since according to the summaries Nos. 239-250. The attacks in the nights of 7-8 and 8-9 August were fruitless. The convoy lost 6 ships and the enemy two submarines which were rammed by the escorting warships. The number of locations of the enemy submarines in the western part of the Atlantic theater seemed tot to have changed. The escort which sunk a submarine off Wilmington, N.S. was an anti-submarine trawler and not a corvette as mentioned in Summary No. 242.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 243 dated 10 August 1942.
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