TANKER SUNK
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
TWENTY-TWO OF CREW LOST
NEW YORK, December 2?
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey has announced that the tanker Charles Pratt (8982 tons) has been sunk. Twenty-two of the crew of 42 were lost.
The ship flew the flag 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 Company oil tankers.
BRITISH SHIP REPORTED
TORPEDOED
(Received December 30, 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 29. The Mackay radio reported that the British steamer Ardanbhan (4980 tons) was torpedoed 460 miles west of northern Scotland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 8
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