Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Wharton Stork, a professor of English from Bryn Mawr, Pa., survived the Athenia, got passage home on the U. S. freighter Wacosta. Off the Irish coast, a submarine stopped the Wacosta with a shot across her bows. Only person who volunteered to talk German with the Nazi commander who came aboard was Professor Stork. After searching the Wacosta this officer said (Stork translation): "We are not so very barbarous, are we? Except that I do need a shave. . . . I'll see you in New York at a tea dance...
...People on the American Farmer, which rescued 29 from the torpedoed British freighter Kafiristan, told about a British light bomber, the U-5-K appearing from nowhere while the submarine still lay by watching the rescue. A half-dozen men were on the U-boat's deck when the diving plane raked it with machine-gun fire. The submarine dived frantically, perhaps with its conning tower still open. The bomber, swooping twice again, dropped charges which almost certainly demolished the U-boat...
...radio log of the American Merchant reported the following series of messages received from the British freighter Fanad Head, sunk northwest of Ireland: 11:20 a.m. "S S S S" [Submarine...
...freighter Steel Mariner (Isthmian Line) told of seeing a U-boat off the "Scilly Islands, apparently unable to dive, limping along disguised crudely as a fishing boat. Up rushed a destroyer and sank...
Fortnight ago three freighters, crammed with 60-odd fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...