An item reported that by 10 August there seemed to be around 48 enemy submarines present in the western part of the Atlantic ocean from the longitude of the Azores westward: 18 on passage 16 east- and 2 westbound positioned:
-latitude of Southern England 7 northward included 1 on passage to the west
-latitudes between Southern England and New York, USA 14 of which 5 on passage, 4 east- and 1 westbound)
-latitudes between New York and Jacksonville, Florida, USA 8 of which 6 on passaga to the east
-latitudes between Jacksonville, Florida, USA and Southern Cuba 7 of which 4 on passage to the east
-latitudes between Southern Cuba and the Canal Zone 8 of which 2 on passage to the east
-latitudes south of the Canal Zone 4
Main numbers were in the northern-Trans-Atlantic shipping routes and to the east and southeastward of Trinidad, the latter presumably for intercepting ships coming or going from South America and South Africa. The J.I.C. commented that the fact that were more submarines going to the east and not to the west had an important meaning. Except for above mentioned 48 submarines there seemed to be another one about 900 miles west of Freetown and a second one 150 miles southwest of Ascension Island. The J.I.C. commented that this second submarine was well to the southward of areas where in the past submarines were active.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 244 dated 11 August 1942.
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