PIRATES OF ATLANTIC
THREE VESSELS SUNK (Rec. 9.5 p.m.) Washington, March 13. The Navy Department announcea that a British tanker and a Swedish freighter were torpedoed in the Carribbean area. Eighty-three survivors from the two ships were rescued by two United States ships. No lives were lost. The United States steamer Oregon was shelled and sunk off Puerto Plata. Dominican Republic. Ten survivors so far have been landed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 62, 14 March 1942, Page 5
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