EIREANN SHIP
TORPEDOED WHEN BOUND FOR NEW YORK. SUBMARINE NOT SIGHTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 20. The master of the Eireann steamship Irish Cak, after being landed at Cork with his crew by plane, reported that his ship was torpedoed without warning on May 15 about 800 miles out on the normal QueenstownNew York route. The first torpedo struck forward and the crew took to the boats, after which a second torpedo hit the ship, which then sank. The weather- was fine and the visibility good. The submarine was not sighted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 2
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