THU 29 OCT 1942
Pacific
Submarine Grenadier (SS-210) lays mines in Tonkin Gulf off Haiphong, French Indochina.
PBY (VP 11) sinks Japanese submarine I-172 west of San Cristobal Island, Solomons, 13°01'S, 162°45'E.
Atlantic
German submarine attacks on British Isles-bound convoy HX 212 continue: U.S. tanker Pan New York is torpedoed by U-624 about 550 miles west of Northern Ireland, 54°58'N, 23°56'W and her cargo of aviation gasoline catches fire, virtually incinerating the ship. Of the 56 souls on board (39 merchant seamen and a 17-man Armed Guard), only 14 (13 crewmen and one Armed Guard sailor) are rescued by Canadian corvettes: HMCS Rosthern picks up 13 (one of whom dies after being rescued); HMCS Summerside two. Escort vessels shell and depth charge the doomed ship. U-224 torpedoes Canadian tanker Bic Island as it straggles from the convoy at 55°05'N, 23°27'E, and sinks her with all hands (including the 44 men rescued from U.S. tanker Gurney E. Newlin on 27 October 1942).
U.S. freighter West Kebar is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-129 14°57'N, 53°37'E, while en route from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; three merchant seamen are killed. The survivors take to two lifeboats and one raft (see 8, 10 and 18 November 1942).
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Brief Reprieve
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2 comments:
If you can keep this sort of post going, you've got my attention! My sea-war library has many feet of shelving devoted to submarine warfare, and I've about worn out my Clay Blair volumes from rereading them so many times.
Nostalgia Editor:
Been stealing from The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II every day this yr., w/ occasional corrections (they often don't know which ocean is which) snark, photos, videos & panels/stories from comic books.
There are quite a few days (in 1942, at least) on which the only activity is by submersibles.
Anyhoo, daily posts at 1942 hrs.
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