TANKERS LOST
Atlantic Seaboard (Rec. 8.0) WASHINGTON, Jan 27 The Navy announced that enemv submarines torpedoed the American tankers Panmaine (7236 tons) and Frances E. Powell (7909 tons) off the eastern seaboard last night. The survivors from both ships were put ashore at Lewes, Delaware. This makes a total of nine ships sunk off the Atlantic coast. Twenty Norwegian seamen, survivors of a Norwegian tanker which was 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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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22183, 29 January 1942, Page 5
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95TANKERS LOST Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22183, 29 January 1942, Page 5
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