From uboat.net.
This was the ship that initially rescued Farris Burton after he was torpedoed and sunk on the SS Firethorn.
Commissioned 4 November 1941. Sent to the South African Navy in 1947 and broken up in 1967.
This ship had quite a busy October 1942.
8 OCTOBER: Picked up 42 survivors of the SS Chickasaw City, torpedoed and sunk 7 October by U-172 about 85 miles from Cape Town, South Africa.
8 OCTOBER: Picked up 28 survivors of SS Firethorn, torpedoed and sunk the previous day by U-172 near Cape Town.
10 OCTOBER: Picked up 5 survivors from Pantellis sunk two days earlier by U-172 by Cape Town. Wikipedia says there were 28 rescued.
29 OCTOBER: British merchant ship Ross torpedoed and sunk by U-159 near Cape Agulhas, South Africa. 39 survivors picked up by the HMS Rockrose.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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