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SUNK OFF AMERICAN COAST. ATTACKED BY THREE U-BOATS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 2. The Navy Department announced that the freighter Marore, 8215 tons, was torpedoed on the Atlantic coast. Three submarines attacked the Marore on the night of February 26. crippling her with one torpedo and riddling her with more than 100 shells from stem to stern. The crew of 39 was landed 24 hours later. Twenty-five men were afloat in two lifeboats for 12 hours, 14 men rigged a sail on a third lifeboat and landed at Cape Hatteras. The crew said they watched the Marore’s death struggle as the thiee submarines, grouped in a triangle, staged a display of fireworks. The radio operator said: “Tracer shells went over our heads. They, sounded like freight trains and looked like Roman candles. It was beautiful, but we couldn’t enjoy it.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 3
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