Show TORPEDOED SHIP REACHES PORT CHARLESTON S S. S C. C April 21 UP A UPI A r Panamanian-r e g i s t e red merchant ship was torpedoed off the Atlantic coast with the loss of ot three lives on April 12 after it crossed a nest of three enemy submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines the Sixth naval district here said Tuesday Forty-eight Forty officers and men were saved and the ship with a huge hole in its port side was towed into a port The navy gave this account Survivors said a thud was felt shortly after midnight Saturday April 11 but an inspection of the ship failed to show any damage or anything out of order About 40 minutes later there was a terrific explosion and Captain A A. T T. Lagan of Woodberry N. N J. J immediately issued an order to abandon ship One man jumped from the deck into the ocean and was not seen seen again Two others died from exhaustion exhaustion exhaustion ex ex- after clinging to an overturned overturned overturned over over- turned lifeboat for almost two hours They were buried at sea with Second Mate Warren N. N Tobey Tobey Tobey To- To bey of Staten Island N N. Y reciting reciting reciting ing the service The captain and two crewmen remained aboard the ship A salvage salvage salvage sal sal- vage vessel arrived 18 hours later and put the vessel into condition for the tow Thirteen hours after the attack the survivors were picked up by patrol boats |