In October, the Newfoundland Railway passenger ferry was torpedoed by , in the Cabot Strait, between Sydney, Nova Scotia and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, with heavy loss of life. "U-69" escaped a counterattack by the "Bangor"-class minesweeper . In November, sank two iron ore freighters and damaged another at Bell Island in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, "en route" to a patrol off the Gaspé Peninsula where, despite an attack by an RCAF patrol aircraft, it successfully landed a spy, Werner von Janowski at New Carlisle, Quebec; he was captured at the New Carlisle railway station shortly after landing on the beach.