Word: miguet
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Jammed aboard the U. S. liner President Harding when she cleared from Le Verdon, near Bordeaux, France on Oct.11 were 597 passengers (157 more than her capacity), 330 of them U. S. citizens. West of Ireland, Captain James E. Roberts turned to rescue the French tanker W. Emile Miguet, which radioed that it had been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed...
...boats sank the 14,115-ton French oil tanker Emile Miguet, their biggest merchant victim to date, and the 5,202-ton British freighter Heronspool. Few days later U-boats destroyed by raking, ruthless shellfire two more French and one British merchantman totaling 26,216 tons. Eight were killed and among the survivors brought ashore by rescue ships 30 wounded victims were on stretchers...
...disclosures, along with the Admiralty announcement of the torpedoing of the 5,202-ton British steamer Hronspool and a report in New York that a French tanker, believed the 15,436-ton Emile Miguet, had been found burning at sea, apparently signalized a renewal of the marine phase of the war. Casualties had been negligible during Nazi peace overtures...
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