Bronxville, a 4,663-ton Norwegian merchant ship carrying general cargo, including 531 tons of explosives. All 39 hands survived and were picked up by the British rescue ship Perth. The next day, 1 September, U-756 was sunk with all hands by depth charges from the corvette . Attack on Convoy ON-127 Convoy ON 127 comprised 32 ships, escorted by the Canadian Escort Group C-4 consisting of the destroyers and , and four s; , , , and . It was first sighted on 9 September 1942 by U-584, which lost contact during the night, but U-96 sighted the convoy again around noon on the next day. Elisabeth van Belgie, Sveve & F.J. Wolfe Between 16:31 and 16:33 U-96 fired four torpedoes at four ships and hit three. The 4,241-ton Belgian merchant ship Elisabeth van Belgie sank with the loss of one man from her crew of 56. When Sveve, a 6,313-ton Norwegian tanker in Admiralty service as a Royal Fleet Auxiliary was hit the subsequent explosion destroyed bulkheads, opened holes on the starboard side, and wrecked the steering gear. With the ship immobile and flooding, the 37 crew and two gunners abandoned ship in four lifeboats. They were picked up within the hour by HMCS Sherbrooke, which then attempted to scuttle the wreck with shell fire. Eventually the ship was reboarded by four of the crew and four men from the corvette who succeeded in sinking her. The third ship hit, the 12,190-ton British tanker F.J. Wolfe was damaged, but able to continue with the convoy. Empire Oil U-659 attacked south-west of Iceland, at 21:10 on 10 September, and hit the 8,029-ton British tanker Empire Oil with two torpedoes, stopping her. All her crew of 53 survived, as the master, 12 crewmen and 6 gunners were picked up by HMCS St. Croix, and 29 crewmen and 5 gunners by HMCS Ottawa. At 01:47 the next day, U-584 sank the drifting Empire Oil with two more torpedoes. After her strike U-659 was counter-attacked by the convoy escorts and seriously damaged. She was forced to abort the patrol and returned to France. Marit II At 00:16 on 11 September U-404 fired three torpedoes and one hit the 7,417-ton Norwegian tanker Marit II. U-608 also fired torpedoes at 00:20 and claimed a hit. Marit II stopped, but after inspecting the damage, she continued and rejoined the convoy on 12 September. She was later repaired