SS Katha, carrying 7,000 tons of naval and military stores including 16 aircraft, was torpedoed by U-124 at 1855 hours on April 2, 1943 about about 320 miles west of Oporto. The master (Samuel Thomson), 53 crew members and four gunners were picked up by Danby and the corvette HMS La Malouine, transferred to the New Northland and landed at Freetown. One crew member (commemorated on Tower Hill Panel 60) and five unknown gunners were lost.
