SUBMARINE WAR ON SHIPPING
(Rec. 5.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, MARCH 2. The Navy announced that the freighter, Marore (8215 tons) was torpedoed on tlie Atlantic coast. Three submarines attacked the Marore on Thursday night, crippling her with one torpedo and riddling her with more than 100 shells from stem to stern. The crew of 39 were all landed 24 hours later; twenty-five were afloat in two lifeboats for 12 hours; 14 rigged a sail on a third lifeboat and landed at Cape Hatteras. Members of the crew said they watched the Marore’s death struggle as
the three submarines, grouped trianglewise, staged a display of fireworks. The radio operator said: Tracer shells went over our heads. They sounded like freight trains and looked like Roman candles. It was beautiful but we could not enjoy it. The U.S. Navy Department revealed that the United States tanker, William H. Berg, exchanged shots with an enemy vessel, presumably a submarine on Saturday night south-east of the Farallon Islands, 60 miles from San Francisco. Naval ships and bombers rushed to the scene, but were unable to locate the submarine. San Francisco radio stations were silenced for 40 minutes during the incident.
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Southland Times, Issue 24684, 4 March 1942, Page 5
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