Near midnight, the E-Boat S 19 torpedoed Elmcrest south of Portland which took on a list as the crew abandoned ship. The fired its other torpedo at the starboard side as the lifeboat was being rowed clear; the torpedo passed underneath the lifeboat before hitting the ship and the lifeboat capsized, sixteen men being drowned; survivors were rescued by destroyer . Soon afterwards, S 20 (Götz von Mirbach) and S 26 hit the tanker British Corporal with two torpedoes at . Two crewmen were killed and the ship was abandoned but did not sink and was later towed into port. Hartlepool was torpedoed by S 26 and abandoned, south, south-west of Portland, apparently in a sinking condition, the survivors being rescued by destroyer ; the ship was later beached at Weymouth.
