SUNK BY U-BOAT
CANADIAN FERRY STEAMER TRAGIC LOSS OF LIFE. WOMEN AND CHILDREN AMONG VICTIMS. SYDNEY (Nova Scotia), October 17. Torpedoed in darkness, the ferry steamer Caribou sank in Cabot Strait on October 14, with the loss of 136 lives. It was the greatest war time marine disaster in Canadian coastal waters.
Naval craft saved 100 of the passengers and crew. Service men and civillans, including women and children, perished in their bunks when an explosion shattered the ship, which sank in a few minutes near the end of the overnight run from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland.
The U-boat surfaced after the attack and watched the Caribou’s finish and the survivors struggling in the water.
Rear Admiral Emery Land, chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, told the American Merchant Marine conference that while new protective methods had reduced the toll taken by U-boats, the number of U-boats sunk was increasing month by month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 October 1942, Page 3
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