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NH 96582 S.S. EMPIRE DRUM (British merchant ship)

S.S. EMPIRE DRUM (British merchant ship)
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Title: S.S. EMPIRE DRUM (British merchant ship)
Caption: Survivors in a life boat under sail and oars, after EMPIRE DRUM was sunk. She had been torpedoed by the German submarine U-136 several hundred miles east of Hampton Roads, Virginia, 24 April 1942.
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Catalog #: NH 96582
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
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Original Date: Fri, Apr 24, 1942
After this Year: 1939
Before this Year: 1945
Original Medium: BW Photo
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