Nummer: 15806a
| Area : | Western Area |
| Sea area : | North Atlantic |
| Date of attack : | 17.03.1943 |
| Time of attack : | 05:56 |
| Nationality of U-boat : | German |
| U-boat : | U 600 |
| Commander : | Zurmühlen |
| Grid : | BD 1361 |
| presumed target type : | Steam Freighter |
| presumed tonnage : | 7000 BRT |
| presumed result : | sunk |
| Used weapon(s) : | Torpedo with preset course |
| Convoy : | HX.229 |
| Date of observation : | 17.03.1943 |
| Time of observation : | 04:59 |
| Nationality of target : | British |
| Actual type of target : | Steam Freighter |
| Name of target : | Nariva |
| Year of launch : | 1920 |
| Actual tonnage : | 8714 BRT |
| Actual result : | damaged |
| Position of target : | 50.40n 34.10w |
| Footnote : | U-600 fired five FAT torpedoes, and heard four hits. Two hit "Irenée du Pont", which slowly flooded and was abandoned. The British corvette "Anemone"(K 48) tried to sink her, but the ship remained afloat. - The burning "Southern Princess" sank at 10.30h GCT. - At 16:08h U-91/Walkerling reported by FT that two steamers of 7,000 grt and 4,000 grt had been observed sinking during the afternoon. Both ships were not identified, but one of them may have been "Nariva", the other one possibly "Irenée du Pont". |
| related attacks : | Angriff 1 Angriff 2 Angriff 3 |
| Convoy : | HX.229 |
| Route of convoy : | (New York) - Halifax - United Kingdom |
| Remark to convoy : | Sep 1939 to Sep 1942 ab Halifax, then from New York (counter traffic = ON), vgl. HXF und SC. |
| updated on: | 00.00.0000 |