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...They started to fire torpedoes and we dropped depth charges to drive them off. The submarines were probably on the surface with their decks awash and their engines cut, so we couldn't hear them. One tanker was afire and sinking. A corvette was trying to pick up survivors. Somehow a U-boat had maneuvered between the Kearny and the convoy. She went after...
WASHINGTON--The Navy Department today abandoned hope of rescuing the 95 missing members of the crew of the U. S. Destroyer Reuben James, which was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland last month, and announced belatedly that the 16,800 ten Naval tanker Salinas had been "seriously damages" by a U-boat in the same general area...
...Ickes announced that the British, doing better in the Battle of the Atlantic, would soon (by next month) return 40 of the 80 tankers they had got from the U.S. This addition to the U.S. tanker fleet, plus the savings effected by the curfew and a 10% cut in deliveries to dealers, said Mr. Ickes, ended the threat of oil shortage for the Eastern Seaboard...
Events still might make the choice unnecessary. From Rio de Janeiro came a radio flash: the I. C. White, 7,052-ton American-owned Panama-registered tanker, had been torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 27 in the South Atlantic, with a loss of four of her 38 men. This was the eighth U.S.-owned ship sunk in World...
WASHINGTON--The U. S. Maritime Commission tonight announced awards for construction of 49 tankers as part of the effort to build the largest and most modern tanker fleet in the world...