Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Shipwreck-CITY OF ATLANTA

Shipwreck of the "City of Atlanta" a freighter sunk by the German U-boat, U-123 on January 19, 1942. It's captain was Master Mariner Leman Chapman Urquhart, a harbor pilot and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada native (misspelled in Gannon's "Operation Drumbeat") two survivors, loss of 43. The ship was on the way to Savannah, Georgia, from a NYC dock on her regular run. It was built in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1903, I thought a  large side-wheeler, according to a photo in the library of the National Maritime Historical Society in Peekskill, NY. My grandfather's brother was the captain, and in a twist of fate, a high school associate interviewed the captain of the U-boat in the late 1980's as a television journalist. I'm not sure if the NY Times photo is the ship or not now. (Coastal Survey, Chart 7, Record 674). Google Earth at Latitude 35?23'28.64"N Longitude 75?20'12.52"W

However there is this "Special to the NY Times" January 21, 1942 in the listings of the Association of Underwater Explorers (AUE) web-site and is located on the map of Cape Hatterras here.

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