LOSSES OF SHIPS
4 OFF AMERICAN EAST COAST. FIGURES FOR LAST TWO MONTHS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NORFOLK (Virginia), March 22. The Navy announced that enemy submarines last week sank three additional United States vessels, which were described only as mediumsized merchantmen. Eighteen members of the crews are missing from all the attacks. The sinkings in United States coastal waters since January 14 now number 55. With the sinkings in Canadian and Caribbean waters the combined total is more than 100. SHELLED & SUNK. SMALL MERCHANT VESSEL. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 23. The Navy Department has announced that a small United Nations merchantman was sunk off the Atlantic coast. Survviors said the ship was sunk on March 5. A submarine shelled and machine-gunned the ship for thirty minutes, apparently to conserve torpedoes. Radio stations in the Los Angeles area were ordered off the air at 5.36 a.m. (local time) today. No reason was given.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1942, Page 3
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