August. No damage was sustained. U-596 lost a man overboard on 30 August in mid-Atlantic. The boat then docked at St. Nazaire in occupied France on 3 October. Second patrol Her next foray from St. Nazaire took the U-boat as part of group 'Delphin' to La Spezia in northern Italy. Her route involved passing the heavily defended Strait of Gibraltar, which she successfully accomplished in the darkness during the period of the new moon from 8–10 November 1942. Third and fourth patrols U-596s third patrol took her past the Balearic Islands to the Algerian coast near Oran. It was unsuccessful. Her fourth foray yielded some reward. Between Algiers and Oran she damaged Fort Norman and Empire Standard, both on 9 March 1943. Fifth and sixth patrols Her fifth outing, in the same area as her third and fourth patrols, was rewarded with the sinking of the Fort a la Corne west of Algiers on 30 March 1943. Her home port was moved from La Spezia to Pola in Croatia; she sailed from there on her sixth patrol, but it was uneventful. Seventh and eighth patrols Patrol number seven was marked by the sinking of several Egyptian, a Palestinian and British-registered sailing ships off the Lebanon coast with her deck gun in August and September 1943. During her eighth patrol, she sank Marit off the Libyan coast on 4 October, but was attacked by the British corvette . Although slightly damaged, the U-boat escaped. Ninth, tenth and eleventh patrols U-596 departed Pola on 30 November but it was not until many days later that she sank the Troop Transport Cap Padaran off Cape Spartivento in Italy on 9 December. She returned to Pola on 28 December 1943. Another unsuccessful patrol passed between 12 February and 11 March 1944. The boat barely left the Adriatic for patrol number eleven. Twelfth patrol What turned out to be the last complete patrol by a U-boat in the Mediterranean began with U-596s departure from Pola on 29 July 1944. Her route was to the Gulf of Sirte on the Libyan coast. Her arrival at Salamis in Greece was followed by the USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) bombing the port on 29 September (USAAF records say the 25th). The boat was sufficiently damaged that the crew were forced to abandon her and join the general retreat through Athens. Fate The submarine was scuttled on 30