SS Potrero del Llano
The German submarine U-564, which was circling the Florida coast under the command of Captain Reinhard Suhren, at 7:17 a.m. on May 14, 1942, the Potrero del Llano with a load of 6,132 tons of petroleum, at first he thought it was an Italian flag ship, but realizing that it had the Eagle of the Mexican Shield, he decided to sink it, which would happen killing 13 crew members, only 22 survived and would be rescued by a US coastal ship that would take them to Miami, among the survivors was José Reyes Sousa, survivor of the SS Las Choapas, which would be sunk by the U-129, one month later.