AMERICAN FREIGHTER TORPEDOED

Southland Times, Issue 24825, 18 August 1942, Page 5

AMERICAN FREIGHTER TORPEDOED

(Rec, 6.30 pm.) WASHINGTON, August 16. The Navy Department announced that all 39 members, of the. crew of a medium-sized American freighter were saved when the vessel was torpedoed in the Atlantic several hundred miles from the South American coast last month. The survivors,spent six days in life-boats and were finally picked up by a United Nations . vessel, which brought them to a United States east coast port. Eighty-seven survivors of three United Nations ships have been landed at Recife in Brazil. The vessels were the 4700 ton British freighter Treminnard, the 6200 ton British tanker Tricula and the 6000 ton Norwegian tanker Havesten. A Brazilian tanker sunk by a submarine in the Caribbean was the twelfth Brazilian victim of the U-boat warfare. The torpedoing of the 6000 ton Dutch merchantman Kentar in the Atlantic was disclosed when an Argentine freighter picked up seven survivors.

MASS LAUNCHING AT PORTLAND

PORTLAND (Maine), August 16. Coast shipyards had an unprecedented mass launching today when they launched six merchantmen aggregating 61,002 tons, including five for Britain, and also two destroyers. The building time of the merchantmen was between 48 and 61 days.