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Heroic Death of Captain Revealed by Sub Survivors
(Boston Globe–N.Y. Herald Tribune.) NEW YORK, April 24 — An heroic episode of the increasing battle which American merchant sailors are waging against submarines off the Atlantic Coast was related today by survivors of an American ship whose skipper, at the cost of his life, steered straight into a barrage of cannon-fire in a vain attempt to ram and sink an attacking U-boat. The skipper, Capt. Samuel L. Cobb of Staten Island, was mortally wounded by a fragment of shell which exploded near the bridge of the vessel. One other seaman, Victor J. Pratola, 19, of 17 Murray st., Wakefield, Mass., was killed in the attack, which took place on the night of April 16, and five were missing. Twenty-seven survivors. (Source: The Boston Globe (Boston, Mass.), Saturday, April 25, 1942)
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