Summary: Three sections of separate newsreel items showing U-boat and heavy cruiser victories.
Description: I. Final part of the last item of the Ufa Portuguese newsreel Lisboa Film No 52. U-boat patrolling the Atlantic near Equator appears to attack a cargo vessel, the Portuguese Goncalo Velho from Ponta Delgada, and definitely fires on and sinks two other ships, a British cargo vessel and an oil tanker which blazes. Captain of the U-boat emerges smiling from the conning tower. Portuguese caption "E um filme" marks end of newsreel.
II. Hipper class heavy cruiser and Leberecht Maass destroyer stand by as a two funnelled passenger ship starts to list and then sink. Survivors in lifeboat.
III. Views of ocean-going U-boats at sea, U-boat entering port, U-2 at sea then a fleet of U-boats at sea. Edited sequence then covers a U-boat sighting enemy shipping, diving (interior shots), being depth-charged, raising periscope, action stations to guns, training guns on ship, raising and firing shells at the cargo vessel. Another sequence shows crew in oilskins on the conning tower of U-boat ploughing through heavy seas. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle emblem marks end of newsreel item.
