MON 13 APR 1942
Pacific
Submarine Grayling (SS-209) torpedoes and sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Ryujin Maru off southwest tip of Shikoku, Japan, 31°51'N, 132°50'E. Destroyer Minazuki drives off Grayling with depth charges.
Japanese transport No.3 Hino Maru is damaged by aircraft (nationality unspecified) off Koepang, Timor.
Atlantic
Unarmed U.S. tanker Esso Boston, torpedoed and shelled by German submarine U-130 the previous day, sinks; the entire 37-man crew is rescued by destroyer Biddle (DD-151) and taken to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Abandoned U.S. tanker Eugene V.R. Thayer, shelled on 9 April by Italian submarine Pietro Calvi, sinks off coast of Brazil.
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Late-Sinking Tankers
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