SINKING OF TANKER
Standard Oil Company Ship NEW YORK. December 27. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey lias announced that the tanker Charles Pratt has been sunk. Two of the crew of -12 were lost. The ship flew the Hag of the Panama Transport Company. The location and cause of the sinking are not known. The tanker left Aruba on December 5 for Freetown, and was one of the group transferred to the Panama registry when the Neutrality Act banned American shipping from belligerent waters. She is the eighth Panama flag vessel sunk during the war. Several of those sunk were Standard Oil Company tankers.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 7
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106SINKING OF TANKER Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 81, 30 December 1940, Page 7
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