 There, on 17 October, about south of Cape Town, she torpedoed and sank the unescorted British 5,970 ton "Empire Chaucer".On the 23rd she sank the British 5,669 ton , and on the 26th she attacked the unescorted American 7,176 ton Liberty ship "Anne Hutchinson".The crew abandoned their vessel after she was hit by two torpedoes and fatally damaged.