Nummer: 11713d
| Area : | Western Area |
| Sea area : | North Atlantic |
| Date of attack : | 18.08.1942 |
| Time of attack : | 18:52 |
| Nationality of U-boat : | German |
| U-boat : | U 214 |
| Commander : | Reeder |
| Grid : | CF 2569 |
| presumed target type : | Steam Freighter |
| presumed tonnage : | 6000 BRT |
| presumed result : | sunk |
| Used weapon(s) : | Torpedo(es) |
| Convoy : | SL.118 |
| Date of observation : | 18.08.1942 |
| Nationality of target : | British |
| Actual type of target : | Armed Merchant Cruiser |
| Name of target : | Cheshire (F.18) |
| Year of launch : | 1927 |
| Actual tonnage : | 10552 BRT |
| Actual result : | damaged |
| Position of target : | 41.30n 19.49w |
| Footnote : | U-214 fired four torpedoes and heard detonations after 4:31 min, 4:37 min, 3:10 min and 2:27 min. Probably one ship was hit by two torpedoes, the other by one. The AMC was salvaged. |
| related attacks : | Angriff 1 Angriff 2 Angriff 3 |
Armed Merchant Cruiser Cheshire (F.18) ex British -MP (bis 1939)
| Convoy : | SL.118 |
| Route of convoy : | Sierra Leone (Freetown) - United Kingdom (Liverpool) |
| Remark to convoy : | Since Sep 1939; from May 1943 combined with MKS in Atlantic, counter traffic = OS. |