[1] Pennsylvania Sun was traveling from Port Arthur, Texas to Belfast, with 107.500 barrels of Navy fuel oil on 15 July 1942.

The torpedo also blew away the port wing of the bridge, killing quartermaster James B. Mortimer and able seaman John C. Riley.

[1] The master of Pennsylvania Sun, Frederick Lyall steered for five minutes southeast at full speed and then ordered the engines to be stopped while a distress signal was sent.

They extinguished the remaining flames and towed her to Key West, where temporary repairs were made and the bodies of the 2 deceased crew members were removed from the ship and buried at their home towns.

The ship was finally scrapped at La Spezia in February 1963 after 25 years of service and surviving a torpedo strike and fire.