SHIPS HIT SPAIN 2 - SPANISH SHIPS LOST
2)MONTE IGUELDO (SUB BARBARIGO)
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Built 1921
Tonnage 3,453 / 6,035 tons
Cargo: 5,400 tons of wheat and maize.
Route: Buenos Aires - Tenerife - Las Palmas
Sunk 24 FEB 43 by submarine Barbarigo on pos. 04º 32’S 32º 04’W.
1 Dead
34 Survivors
Left Rosario and Buenos Aires for Tenerife and Las Palmas. On 24th february 1943, at 236 miles ENE Natal, Brazil (near Fernando de Noronha) met with italian submarine Barbarigo (Capt. Roberto Rigoli) which was enroute to the assigned area off Brazil. Monte Igueldo had been stopped and searched in the previous day by USS CL 44 Savannah. The Monte Igueldo was damaged with a torpedo, and while the submarine was surfacing to finish off the job with the deck gun, the "Barbarigo" was attacked by a Catalina flying boat PBM-3 (VP 74) which dropped three bombs, missing the target and being fought back by the Italian Submarine. Neither side, however, inflicts damage on the other.
By Alvar Hernán
