U-Boat Sinks Collier Off New York Coast
Received Thursday, 8.50 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 9. The U.S. Navy announced that am enemy submarine torpedoed and sank an American collier of 7000 tons off the Rhode Island coast on Saturday last. Twelve members of the crew are missing, believed dead. Three Allied ships in the vicinity rescued 34 survivors. The collier’s owners said the submarine was reported to have been sunk by nav al action after the collier went down.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 110, 11 May 1945, Page 5
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