On 8 October 1942[REF] Abosso left Cape Town, South Africa for Liverpool carrying 210 passengers: 149 military and 61 civilians, including 44 internees, 10 women with children and two or three British distressed seamen[REF] (the official term for seamen rescued from sinkings).
At 22:13 on Thursday 29 October 1942 Abosso was in the Atlantic about 589nmi north of the Azores[REF] when , commanded by Kapitänleutnant Günther Heydemann, fired a spread of four torpedoes at her [REF].