 There were no survivors from the crew of 75 men.Despite being about distant, debris from the explosion struck the surfaced U-boat, slightly injuring a crewman; the next day a shell without a fuze, which had been blown from the torpedoed was found lodged in the conning tower.On the evening of 30 November, the 4,868-ton British merchant ship "Ashby", a straggler from Convoy OS-12, was hit by one of two torpedoes fired by "U-43", south-south-east of Flores in the Azores.