FOOD SHIP STILL AFLOAT
tug speeding to her aid Received Saturday, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. A powerful rescue tug is speeding seaward from St. Nazaire to try and save the food-carrymg American ship American Farmer, after an air reconnaissance from Plymquth had showed that she was still afloat after a collision yesteraay. It was stated yesterday that the American Farmer, which was carrying food to Britain, had sunk I after a collision with the Wiiliam J. Riddle, another American vessel, 480 miles from the Jrish coast. The cargo of the American Farmer inciuded 550 tons of wheat, as well . as evaporated milk, dried eggs and : machinery.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1946, Page 5
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