And, there were a large number of German vessels operating in the area. In the first weeks of the war, a German U-boat sank the Cunard passenger liner SS Athenia two hundred miles off the west coast of Ireland.
The Athenia was carrying 1,103 passengers and was sunk by the U-30 on September 3, 1939.
Another U-boat sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous off the southwest coast.
--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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