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August 11, 1942 the tanker Mirlo was torpedoed and sunk by the U-130 about 1,000 miles west of Sierra Leone. All 37 of the crew abandoned the ship in three lifeboats and were picked up by Royal Navy warships, but it took until Aug. 20 to find them all. |
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