 Three days later, the British India passenger ship met the same fate.Even though escorted by an Italian destroyer and a trawler, "Mongara" was torpedoed and sunk by "U-28" just from the breakwater at Messina.The 8,205-ton liner—the largest ship sunk by "U-28"—was en route from Sydney to London when she went down, but was spared any loss of life in the attack.