 On 5 February the convoy escort was reinforced by the cutter and the s and from Iceland.The reinforced escort damaged "U-262" and .In the pre-dawn hours of 7 February, "Kapitänleutnant" Siegfried von Forstner's torpedoed the British freighter "Afrika", Norwegian tanker "Daghild", Greek freighter "Kalliopi", American tanker "Robert E. Hopkins", American cargo liner , and convoy rescue ship "Toward".