#torpedoed

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HMS Gurkha, 1 hour after being torpedoed near Sidi Barani, Jan 1942. Photo taken from Dutch destroyer HNLMS Isaac Sweers which rescued the crew .

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"HAMILTON MAN IN SEA ADVENTURE - Survivors of a ship which was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic in blinding snowstorm, these Royal Canadian Air Force officers were photographed as they arrived in Britain with the clothes they are wearing, and nothing else. The ship was sunk in the evening, and the men spent several hours in a lifeboat before a British corvette picked them up. Their clothes were soaked in salt water, but otherwise the group suffered no serious effects from the experience. The persons in this picture, all from Ontario, are: Rear row, Pilot Officer J. S. Dewar, Hepworth: Pilot Officer W. G. Rennie, 113 Burnsdale street, Lansing; Pilot Officer W. D. Hopkinson, 290 Wexford avenue south, Hamilton. Front row, Pilot Officer O. J. Cox, 607 Dufferin street, Toronto; Pilot Officer W. E. McLean, Waverly road, Toronto, and Pilot Officer Robert Essery, 844 Davenport road, Toronto. - R.CA.F. Photo," - from the Hamilton Spectator. May 21, 1943. Page 7.

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HIT by a torpedo from the submarine Wahoo, this Jap cargo ship is beginning to sink. The photograph was made through the sub's periscope. The Wahoo sank 13 ships on two patrols.

ITS stern almost straight up and shrouded in smoke. the Jap ship heads for the bottom a few minutes later. - from the Toronto Star. March 26, 1943 Page 2.

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"Graphic Pictures Show the Torpedoing of the U. S.-Owned Freighter Lehigh," Windsor Star. November 24, 1941. Page 20. ---- SHOWN in this series of photos is the end of the US-owned freighter Lehigh, sunk by a submarine torpedo off Freetown, Africa. At the upper left, the prow of the ship is seen almost vertical as it goes down. At the upper right, with nose. lifting and more than half of her length submerged, the Lehigh begins to sink. Pulling away are No. 1 and No. 2 life-boats, last to leave the ship. At lower left, No. 3 lifeboat fore- ground) pulls away with Nester Halm, otler, manning an oar.. Behind him is a stowaway (wearing glansen), one of five who boarded the merchantman in Spain. The No. 1 and No. 2 life-boats still are alongside the ship. Lower right, Joseph P. Bartlett, of Oakland, Calif., a crewman on the Lehigh. Is shown resting in his bunk as the Steamer Acadia arrived in New York November 22 with men of the Lehigh. Bartlett lost four toes when struck by a falling hatch beam during the torpedo explosion. With him are Crewmen Nester Malin left), of Baltimore, and Joseph Manerchia, of Marcus Hook, Pa.

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“Torpedoed Tanker’s Last Moment,” Kingston Whig-Standard. January 27, 1942.  Page 5. ---- This photo shows the 6,768-ton tanker Coimbra sliding beneath the waves after falling victim to a submarine off Long Island about 100 miles east of New York, last week.

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“‘Torpedoed Off Eire Coast,” Toronto Star. January 17, 1941. Page 1. ---- Almeda Star, ‘Pirate Ship’ to Nazis, and Freighter Zealandic in Difficulties in North Atlantic and Fates Unknown ---- New York, Jan. 17. - (AP) - Two large British vessels - the 14,935-ton Blue Star passenger liner Almeda Star and the 10,578-ton freighter Zealandic - were reported torpedoed overnight. Their signals came from 350 to 650 miles northwest of Ireland.

The signals came less than eight hours, but gave no indication whether the ships were sinking or whether they could make a port.

Shortly after 6 p.m. (E.D.T.) yesterday, the Zealandic, a 482-foot ship out of Southhampton, reported she had been torpedoed. No further word has been received from her. She customarily trades between Britain and New Zealand.

Then, at 1.49 a.m. E.D.T. today, the Alameda Star radioed that she had been hit.

The Almeda Star, which is 578 feet long, figured in the news Sept. 30, 1939, when she arrived armed at Rio de Janeiro. On Nov. 14, 1939, the Nazis classified her as a ‘pirate ship’ and claimed she would be sunk without warning because she carried arms. She has traded between Britain, France, and South America.

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“Men Like These Are Winning The Bitter Battle of the Atlantic,” Toronto Star. January 28, 1942. Page 19. --- DRIFTING, EXHAUSTED SURVIVORS TELL THE STORY OF ANOTHER LOSS TO A U-BOAT Keen-eyed observers on a ship in the Atlantic spotted these survivors of a torpedoed merchantman. At first only a speck, they drifted closer and what the rescuers saw was an overturned lifeboat with three men clinging weakly to it. Only one of them had sufficient strength to reach the rope thrown from the rescue ship. It is men such as these that are slowly but surely overcoming the difficulties in the Battle of the Atlantic, heroic people who reach the headlines only anonymously. They carry the tools of war to Britain.

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“Victor In Many Battles, Oft-Attacked Ark Royal Is Sunk,” The Globe and Mail. November 15, 1941. Page 3. ---- Bombs from Italian aircraft are shown raising huge columns of water as they miss the famous aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which was torpedoed by an Axis submarine in the Mediterranean and sank while in tow to Gibraltar. The Germans had boasted she was sunk in the first month of the war. Most of the personnel were saved.