On the northwest coast of Ireland.
In November 1940, a lighthouse keeper spotted the tanker San Demetrio.
A German pocket battleship had attacked it and its convoy making its way across the North Atlantic.
While most of the other ships in the convoy were destroyed, the San Demetrio was so severely damaged that the crew abandoned it. However, the ship did not sink, and after several days, five crew members returned to the ship, extinguished the flames, restarted her engines, and headed for Eagle Island.
The keepers spotted her and notified a tug and a destroyer to come to the ship's aid.
--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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