"U-264" and "U-628" each launched five torpedoes shortly after midnight. "Harbury" was hit at 0046; "Harperly" was hit by two torpedoes at 0104; and "West Maximus" was hit by one torpedo at 0103, another at 0110, and a third at 0135. Both U-boats claimed three ships; but modern historians credit the first freighter to "U-628" and the other two to "U-264". One of the torpedoes passed within of "Snowflake". At 0122 "Snowflake" started closing a radar contact illuminated by star shells fired by "Oribi"; and both ships dropped depth charges. The gunfire encouraged "U-264" to dive, and the depth charges forced "U-270" to return to base. "U-358" torpedoed "Bristol City" at 0225, and "Wentworth" at 0230. At dawn, "Lorient" was missing from the convoy. No witnesses to her destruction survived the battle. Before "U-125" was sunk, she sent a radio report about sinking a steamship sailing independently; and modern historians assume "Lorient" straggled from the convoy and was torpedoed by "U-125".