At about 06.20 on 18 June, "U-124" fired two spreads of two torpedoes at three ships of Convoy ONS 102, en route from Murmansk to New York. One torpedo struck the 5,627-ton American merchant ship "Seattle Spirit", causing flooding and a boiler explosion which killed one officer and two men below. The remaining 9 officers, 28 men, 11 armed guards (the ship was armed with a gun, four .50 caliber and four .30 caliber machine guns) and 7 passengers abandoned ship in lifeboats. They were picked up by the corvette , and "Seattle Spirit" was shelled and sunk at 20:30 by "Agassiz" after it was determined she could not be salvaged.