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When the 250-ton fishing boat Barnegat put out of Beaufort, N.C. for the menhaden*grounds one morning last winter, she carried some visitors who had never made the trip before. They were Bendix engineers, on board to check on the Barnegat's electronic "fish-finder." The reports from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder...
...Near Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast, duck hunters lay in fogbound blinds and listened to the stodgy thrum of two blimps plowing through the overcast. Then they heard a ripping crash. Through the fog, wreckage dripped down into...
Through the day the fog rolled in from the sea; next morning sea and sky were washed bright and clear. But eight officers and men had been lost off Barnegat...
...tanker Gulftrade, out of Port Arthur, Tex. with a cargo of oil, ploughed through the heavy seas off Barnegat Light, some 60 miles from her destination, New York City. When the lookout reported several vessels in the vicinity, chubby, moon-faced Captain Torger Olsen imprudently ordered his darkened ship's lights turned on. Said he ruefully: "I saw we were up to Barnegat and I thought they shouldn't be able to get us any more. I made a mistake...
...tons) by gun, bombs, mine and torpedo. Cruising within sight of the lights of Staten Island, one sub hove to on three different nights and cut transatlantic and Central American telegraph cables. The Germans mined the mouths of the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, laid other fields off Barnegat and Long Island. One of the mines smashed a hole in the battleship Minnesota, which limped into port, was laid up for the duration. Another mine sank the U.S. cruiser San Diego a few miles off Long Island...