FRI 15 OCT 1943
Pacific
Submarine Tullibee (SS-284) attacks 10-ship Japanese convoy, sinking transport Chicago Maru, 24°35'N, 120°30'E.
Atlantic
Advanced Amphibious Training Base, Fowey, Cornwall, England, is established.
U.S. freighter James Russell Lowell*, in convoy GUS 18, is torpedoed by German submarine U-371 at 37°18'15"N, 07°10'30"E and abandoned. British whaler HMS Southern Sea rescues the 41-man merchant complement and the 28-man Armed Guard. With hopes high for saving the ship, the merchant crew reboards the ship and Southern Sea takes James Russell Lowell in tow. As weather conditions worsen, all but the master and two men abandon ship once more (see 16 October 1943).
*History Lesson: The most versatile of the New Englanders during the middle of the nineteenth century, James Russell Lowell was a vital force in the history of American literature ...
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