[SunkenCiv]

Aye-aye, Claudius:

For more than 60 years, Captain Herbert G. Claudius was blamed for letting a Nazi U-boat 'get away', after it sank the Robert E. Lee passenger freighter in the Gulf of Mexico in 1942. But an undersea expedition -- aided by Dr Robert Ballard who rediscovered the Titanic 30 years ago -- has revealed the first published pictures of the submarine's wreckage, showing how bombs dropped by Cpt Claudius' crew successfully sunk the attacker U-166... The US team declared victory and set about rescuing passengers from the sunken ship -- but days later, 140 miles, there was another sighting of the deadly Nazi submarine.

So, the later sighting was by whom? And what axe did they have to grind? Or perhaps, how high were they?

[colorado tanker]

From what I gather the second "sighting" was not a positive ID. Another ship was torpedoed not far away and people assumed it was the same sub. You know the old saying about when we assume.

I did some checking and the good news is Captain Claudius got out of the doghouse and went on to a successful Navy career.

http://ussfloydbparks.org/claudius.html