Shortly after midnight on 20 June 1942, "I-25" torpedoed the new, coal-burning Canadian freighter SS "Fort Camosun" off the coast of Washington. The freighter was bound for England with a cargo of war production materials including zinc, lead, and plywood. One torpedo struck the port side below the bridge and flooded the 2nd and 3rd cargo holds. Canadian corvettes and reached the stricken freighter after dawn and rescued the crew from lifeboats. "Fort Camosun" was towed back into Puget Sound for repairs, and later survived a second torpedo attack by "I-27" in the Gulf of Aden in the fall of 1943.