MORE U-BOAT VICTIMS
TWO AMERICAN TANKERS ATLANTIC COAST SINKINGS WASHINGTON, (Rec. 8.45 p.m.) Jan. 27. The Navy Department announced that enemy submarines torpedoed the American tankers Pan-Maine, of 7236 tons, and the Francis E. Powell, of 7909 tons, off the eastern seaboard last night. The report stated that survivors from both shiDs were put ashore at Lewes, Delaware. This makes a total of nine ships sunk off the Atlantic Twenty Norwegian seamen, survivors of a Norwegian tanker sunk by enemy action in the western Atlantic, were sent to hospital in an east coast Canadian, port after a harrowing 10 days' ordeal in an open lifeboat.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24827, 29 January 1942, Page 5
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105MORE U-BOAT VICTIMS Otago Daily Times, Issue 24827, 29 January 1942, Page 5
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