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...Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...
Questioned, the sailors' grinning comrades told a fantastic story. In a soft. lifeboat, equipped with sails and an auxiliary motor, the missing men had stowed sextant and compass, fuel, a month's supply of food and water. Night before the Orinoco was seized, they slipped away, sailed quietly out of Tampico harbor, headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain...
...ship badly smashed, the skipper ordered his crew to the boats. As they dropped astern, the San Demetrio was struck again and began to blaze. The weather began to kick up. Two of the boats disappeared. All afternoon, through the night, and most of the next day the third lifeboat tossed on the Atlantic...
...second afternoon the lifeboat sighted the San Demetrio again in the distance, still afire, surrounded by floating oil. Easing alongside, they tried to clamber aboard. Flames shot house-high from the afterwell. Amidships she was glowing hot. But by noon next day they had managed to get aboard...
...bridge was ruined, the compasses, steering gear, charts and wireless gone. The only alternate steering gear aft was nearly wrecked. Only four spokes were left in the wheel. And the flames gained more headway every minute. Then the lifeboat broke away, left them stranded...