1942

CNN — A Japanese merchant ship that sank during World War II while carrying over 1,000 prisoners of war in Australia’s largest loss of life at sea has been found. The Montevideo Maru was discovered off the northwest coast of the Philippines’ Luzon island at a depth of more than 4,000 meters...

The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 1942 Retrieved from the National Library of Australia web site, Newspapers Home - Trove CATS, AHOY! --- Feline Rovers of the Sea --- By Illingworth Mackay --- Often in a big ship there are seven or eight cats, but rarely are they seen together. Each keeps to...

MAB Note: White Star commander Inman Sealby, perhaps best remembered for having been in command of Republic II when she sank in 1909, died in 1942, a resident of Vineland, New Jersey, and President of the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society. In 1943 and 1944 the Society's Vineland...