75 Yrs. Ago In Seamanship

FRI 20 NOV 1942
Pacific
Japanese submarine I-175 is damaged when she runs aground at Truk, Carolines.

Caribbean
District patrol craft YP-405 burns and sinks off Smith Shoal light.

Indian Ocean
U.S. freighter Pierce Butler is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-177 off the coast of South Africa at 29°40'S, 36°35'E. All hands (41-man merchant complement and 21-man Armed Guard) abandon ship in four lifeboats (see 21 November).

British hospital ship Atlantis rescues the last 13 survivors from U.S. freighter Excello, sunk by German submarine U-181 on 13 November.

Atlantic
Damaged U.S. tanker Brilliant encounters auxiliary schooner Isabel H., whose master pilots the ship to Musgrave harbor, Newfoundland, where she anchors to await an escort to St. John's (see 21 November).