Nummer: 14518c
| Area : | Western Area |
| Sea area : | North Atlantic |
| Date of attack : | 09.01.1943 |
| Time of attack : | 06:38 |
| Nationality of U-boat : | German |
| U-boat : | U 575 |
| Commander : | Heydemann |
| Grid : | DG 8683 |
| presumed target type : | Tanker |
| presumed tonnage : | ---- --- |
| presumed result : | damaged |
| Number of torpedoes/mines : | -- |
| Used weapon(s) : | Torpedo with preset course |
| Convoy : | TM.1 |
| Actual tonnage : | ---- --- |
| Actual result : | hit not ascertained |
| Footnote : | U-575 fired 1 stern shot and a spread of four FAT and assumed one tanker sunk and two others damaged. Again the depth charges dropped by HMS "Pimpernel" were misinterpreted as torpedo hits. |
| related attacks : | Angriff 1 Angriff 2 |
| Convoy : | TM.1 |
| Route of convoy : | Trinidad - Mediterranean (1942) |
| Remark to convoy : | Januar 1943, tanker convoy for Op. Torch |
| updated on: | 07.08.2013 |
| Remark: | 1T + 4er FAT |