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Before Klakring returned to Pearl Harbor he fell upon a cargo vessel plodding all alone up the coast. He torpedoed her and took her picture going down. The results of Klakring's single cruise: sunk, eight ships totaling 70,000 tons; damaged and possibly sunk, four totaling 20,000 tons...
This week the old vessel is being given a proper funeral, complete with oratory & oomph. And in the pages of the Journal it is getting an obituary greater and longer than any the Journal ever published for any mere man-except Sam Jackson, who got a whole page. "Grams" wants it that...
...ship's captain had appointed a special steward to assist the British Prime Minister, who, at the time of the irregularity, was shaving before a small mirror in the captain's cabin. The steward was embarrassed when he could find no towel in the cabin or anywhere on the vessel...
...Vessel Torpedoed...
Haskell and a couple of buddies rescued the one undestroyed lifeboat which was blown from its moorings into the sea. All living crewmen were crowded into the auxiliary vessel, and were picked up in a few minutes by Russian minesweepers. The merchantman cracked at the stern and sank...