CARIBBEAN SEA SINKINGS
ALLIED VESSELS TORPEDOED (Received March 13, 11.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON. March 12. The Navy Department announced that a British tanker and a Swedish freighter were torpedoed in the Caribbean Sea area. Eighty-three survivors from the two ships were rescued by two United States ships. No lives were lost. _ The United States steamer Oregon (7017 tons) was shelled and sunk off Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Ten survivors have so far landed. Four survivors of the tanker sunk in the Caribbean have reached an Atlantic coast port. They said the Üboat ran down two lifeboats and a raft. They drifted in the remaining lifeboat for a week.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23587, 14 March 1942, Page 8
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