Battle of Atlantic Off NC Coast: April 1942

Ships sunk by U-boat action. //// April 10th-- TAMAULIPAS-- tanker, torpedoed and sunk by U-552, 2 killed. //// April 11th-- HARRY F. SINCLAIR-- tanker, torpedoed by U-203, ten killed. //// April 11th-- ULYSSES-- freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-160. //// April 12th-- STANVAC MELBOURE-- tanker, torpedoed by U-203, 3 killed. //// April 14th-- EMPIRE THRUSH-- freigher, torpedoed and sunk by U-203. //// April 14th-- U-85, submarine, depth-charged, shelled and sunk by US Roper, 45 killed. ( Of interest, near the end of the war, in 1945, the U-879 sank the freighter Belfian Airman on April 14th with one death.) //// --GreGen