U-BOAT VICTIMS
AMERICAN SHIPS SUNK (Rec. 7 p.m.). WASHINGTON, May 8. The Navy Department announced that two medium-sized United States merchantmen were torpedoed in the Caribbean Sea. The survivors were landed at east coast ports. A message from Key West, Florida, says that 14 survivors from these ships who landed there reported that two German, submarines machine-gunned members of the crew. They described one submarine as freshly-painted without a trace of rust, and looking as if it had just left dry dock. Mr Clarence Wells, third mate from one of the torpedoed ships, who was landed at Norfolk, Virginia, said that 13 survivors drifted 1000 miles during 16 days in a lifeboat. Mr Wells asserted that the attacking submarine was small, only about 150 feet in length, and too small to operate for any time without a base or a mother ship.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24912, 11 May 1942, Page 5
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