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Built 1942
Tonnage 4,374 / 7,177 tons
Cargo: Ballast
Route: Suez - Bahia, Brazil - Paramaribo
Sunk 9 MAR 43 by U-510 on position 07º40"N 52º07"W.
1 Dead
64 Survivors
Between 06.04 and 06.11 hours on 9 Mar, 1943, U-510 fired torpedoes during a second attack at the convoy BT-6 about
The James K. Polk (Master Herbert Vidrian Olson) in station #23 was struck by one torpedo on the port side amidships. The explosion knocked out all six sides of the #3 deep tank, extensively damaged the #5 double bottom tank, damaged the engine room, wrecked pumps and piping, carried away the radio antenna and sprung the carriages of the two large guns. One of the armed guards was crushed to death by a lifeboat, which was blown from its davits by the explosion. Two crew members were injured. The ship began to settle by the stern until only three feet of freeboard remained.
The seven officers, 37 crewmen, 18 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 5in, one 3in and four 20mm guns) and three passengers remained on board, until they were taken off by the American submarine chaser USS PC-592 and taken to
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