TWO VICTIMS OF TORPEDOES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.
The Navy Department announced that a medium-sized British merchantman was torpedoed in the Caribbean in the middle of August and that a small Norwegian merchantman was torpedoed and sunk in early August off the northern coast of South America. The captain of the latter vessel was taken prisoner on the submarine and one member of the crew was drowned Thirty-five others were rescued after drifting in lifeboats for five days.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 64, 12 September 1942, Page 7
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