Trigger Warning

SAT 17 OCT 1942
Pacific
Submarine Trigger (SS-237) sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Holland Maru close inshore near the mouth of Bungo Suido, off Kyushu, 32°21'N, 132°04'E.

Atlantic
U.S. freighter Angelina, straggling from New York-bound convoy ON 137, is torpedoed by German submarine U-618 at 49°39'N, 30°20'W (see 18 October 1942).

U.S. freighter Winona torpedoed the day before by German submarine ;U-160, arrives at Port of Spain, Trinidad, under her own power.