 Following the sinking of "Allington Court" on 31 October, the survivors were only spotted and picked up by "City of Christinia" when the third officer climbed a lifeboat's mast and waved a shirt.The true horrors of the Battle of the Atlantic were illustrated when the U-boat sank in mid-Ocean about northwest of the Azores on 16 March 1943.One of the passengers had already survived 51 days in a lifeboat from a previous sinking.