RECORD SHIPPING BAG
AMERICAN SUR.'S EXPLOITS
FINALLY SUNK BY OWN TORPEDO
(Ilec. 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 4. How the submarine Tang sank a record tonnage of shipping for a single 24-hour patrol and was then itself destroyed by one of its own torpedoes was revealed today. 'Seventy-eight members of the crew lost their lives and nine survived a freak accident, which is described by Rear-Admiral Charles Lockwood, Navy Inspec-tor-General. The Tang in 1944 was patrolling off the China coast. She encountered a convoy which included three large modern tankers. The submarine sank altogether 110,000 tons of shipping, including all three tankers. She fired her twenty-fourth and last torpedo at another target. This torpedo began to travel a circular course, and, despite emergency manoeuvres, the submarine was hit amidships and sank almost immediately.
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Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 7
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133RECORD SHIPPING BAG Evening Star, Issue 26042, 5 March 1947, Page 7
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