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At 1:37 pm on 26 September 1940 the unescorted Darcoila, dispersed the day before from convoy OB-217, was hit on port side amidships by one torpedo fired from the stern torpedo tube of U-32 about 600 miles west of Ireland. The ship sank within 5 minutes by the stern after a boiler explosion, position 53°27'N/24°55'W. The master, 35 crew members and one gunner were lost.
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Commemorated on:
Page 159 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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