SAILING UNDER BRITISH FLAG
AMERICAN TANKER SUNK New York, Oct. 23. Maritime circles confirmed the ! report that the American-owned tanker. W. C. Teagle (not W. T. [ Steegel) was sunk in the North ! Atlantic, while sailing under the British flag in convoy. Ihe Maritime Commission refused to issue a statement, on the ground that technically it was a British ship. Marine underwriters have increased the war risk rates from 25 to 100 per cent, on American ships plying between the Western Hemisphere and the Near and Fur East. Rates between the United States and Greenland have been raised from s to ■’ per cent. U.P.A
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 5
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