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===Third patrol=== ''U-505'' began her third patrol on 7 June 1942, after leaving her home port of Lorient. She sank the American ships {{SS|Sea Thrush||2}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiberg |first=Eric |date=2014-04-26 |title=SS Sea Thrush sunk by U-505/Loewe 28 June 1942 off Bahamas, Antigua |url=https://ericwiberg.com/2014/04/ss-sea-thrush-sunk-by-u-505loewe-28-june-1942-off-bahamas-antigua |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Eric Wiberg |language=en-US}}</ref> and {{SS|Thomas McKean||2}} and the Colombian ''Urious'' in the [[Caribbean Sea]].<ref> {{cite web |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur | title = Urious (Colombian Sailing ship) | website=Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII - uboat.net | url = http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1953.html | access-date = 10 September 2016 }} </ref> ''Urious'' was a sailing ship belonging to a Colombian diplomat, and her sinking was one of a long series of incidents that gave Colombia political grounds to declare war on Germany a year later.<ref name="Gobeler"> {{cite book |last=Goebeler |first=Hans |title=Steel Boat, Iron Hearts: A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 |publisher=Savas Beatie |year=2005 |page=60 }}</ref> ''U-505'' then returned to Lorient on 25 August after 80 days on patrol without being attacked.<ref name=Patrol3>{{cite web |url=http://uboat.net/boats/patrols/patrol_1080.html |title=Patrol info for ''U-505'' (Third patrol) |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |website=U-Boat Patrols - uboat.net |access-date=15 March 2010 }}</ref>
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