An item reported that enemy submarines attacked in the night of 18-19 August a convoy to the westward of Trinidad and torpedoed 2 or 4 freighters. This implicated in the current month already 17 or 18 freighters part of convoys in the Florida Straits-Caribbean area were torpedoed. On 18 August were two merchant ships part of a convoy about 350 miles north east of San Miguel, Azores torpedoed. Totally were until then in August 18 ships part of Atlantic Ocean convoys torpedoed and including the Caribbean 36 ships although not a single ship was lost however. Estimated was that between 1-15 August 53 Allied and neutral ships with a total gross tonnage 275,000 tons were reported to have been lost and including the yet not reported losses probably even 600,000-650,000 tons.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 253 dated 20 August 1942.
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