To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
04/02/2009 7:28:11 PM PDT by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: nickcarraway
What about the USS Panay?
3 posted on
04/02/2009 7:32:08 PM PDT by
rmlew
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To: nickcarraway
The first U.S. ship sunk during WWII was the SS City of Rayville which struck a German-laid mine off Australia on Nov. 9, 1940, killing one mariner.
4 posted on
04/02/2009 7:32:45 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
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To: nickcarraway
I always thought it was the Reuben James ...
5 posted on
04/02/2009 7:47:25 PM PDT by
11th_VA
To: nickcarraway
The ship went down in 70 metres (230 feet) of water off Cape Otway, just 24 hours after the British steamer SS Cambridge sank after hitting a mine off the nearby Wilsons Promontory in Victoria state. Then wouldn't it be the second ship?
6 posted on
04/02/2009 7:54:02 PM PDT by
Trteamer
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To: nickcarraway; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Thanks nick.
...off southeastern Australia... sunk in 1940 by a German mine
Wow, a *German* minefield, it really was a World War. :'o
10 posted on
04/03/2009 9:57:18 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: nickcarraway; SunkenCiv; ExTexasRedhead; LucyT; ml/nj
German mine?
Not that the Germans didn't threaten American shipping, but that was in the Atlantic, not the Pacific. The Pacific location of the mine suggests that it was much more likely to have been Japanese.
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