It was around 3:30 pm on October 5, 1942, when the Portuguese steamer Mouzinho, traveling between Funchal and São Tomé island, found the lifeboat with 32 survivors of the English merchant Baron Ogilvy, torpedoed on September 29 by U-125.

Despite having on board a large number of provisions collected from other lifeboats and rafts, the men were weakened and tired. The Mouzinho, on a journey through the colonies until Mozambique and back to Lisbon, left the survivors in Cape Town, South Africa, on October, 21. According to Captain Steven's report they were treated very well and everything possible was made on board to restore them to health.

In Cape Town the British crew offered a watch to the Portuguese steamer's commander and a commemorative plaque that was placed in one of the halls. Among the passengers left in Lourenço Marques by Mouzinho were other 56 castaways, of Indian origin, who had belonged to the British Clan Macwhirter and were being repatriated.