The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10
DETAILS OF LOSS
 OF BOAT AWAITED
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 Ono rcport--a third hand radio message picked up. by the Navy's communications division-.said the ship was struck by q German tor- pedo. If true, the Robin Moor would be the first American ship sunk by the dermans during this war.
 One other American ship, the freighter City of Dayville, b,e83 tons, has been Q war victim. It sunk after an explosion. presumably by a mine, on Nov. 6, i040 in Bass strait, six miles off Cape Otawy, Victoria. One of c 38-man crew was lost,
 The other reports of the sinking came through the port captain at Fortaleza, Brazil, who received a message from the Brazilian steafn- ship Osorio reporting that 1t had picked up Il Of the survivors. The fate of the others was not men- toned.
 The state department received q report last night from U. s. Ambas- sador to Brazil Jefferson Caffery, giving the details as related to him by the Fortaleza port captain. There was iio mention in Caifery'S cable of the report of the German attack, but 1t YVES assumed that the ship met other than normal difii- cultieS in view Of his words twas sunk"
 The operators of tho Robin Moor, the Seas Shipping company, an. nounced in New York that 1t sailed from there May 0 for Cape Town, Africa, with eight passengers, itl- ciuding three women and Q two. yoar-old boy. The owners said 1t carried no munitions, just general cargo, including motor truck parts.
 The Robin Moor was commanded by Capt. Edward Myers Of Balti- more and carried these passengers:
 MT. and Mrs. Ben Cohn; Cohn is on employe of Loew's, Inc, motion picture distributors.
 MT, and Mrs. R. W. Mccullough and their tWo-year-old son; enroute to the Firestone Tire and Rubber company plant at Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
 MT. and Mrs. Harry c. Gcnnell; denneli is former secretary of the Trinidad leasehold, British West 1n- dies.
 Philip c, Eccles, British banker.
 The Cohns and Mccullough are Americans; the Genncls and EccleS, British. Mrs. Mccullough is Dutch. If the report that the vessel was sunk by Q German torpedo were true, important repercussions were inevitable. It was recalled that German Grand Admiral Ericll Raeder on May % warned thM country against conveying war shipments to Britain and against extending patrol activities in the Atlantic, German official sources have announced intentions to sink any American vessel carrying im- 1 plements of war to the British forces in Africa and the Near East through the Red Sea route.
 The reported position Of the sink ing is about midway between the eastern bulge of Brazil and Africa
 The Robin Moor was built iil 1919 and formerly was the Exmoor of the American Export Lines. It had @ cruising speed of l9 knots.
 Ofiicers and members of the Robin Moor's crew include:
 Capt. E. w. Myers, Baltimore First officer Melvin V. Mundy Bethlehem, Pa; Second Officer Robert E. Taylor, Salisbury, Mass; able bodied seaman, John Johnson, 10 Haraden Ave-, Watertown, Mass; :; Messman Hugh T. Murphy, East Boston, Mass.
 New York, June 10-(UP)-The Sea Shipping company, operators of the lost steamship Robin MOOT, said today that 10 crew members and one passenger had been res- cued thus far".
 The passenger was Philip c. Ec- cles of Barclays bank, London. The 10 crew members were: John G. Benigan, New York city, third officer.
 William Cary, Belmar, N. Y, boatswain.
 Hollie o. Rise, Bowls. Tex, sea- man.
 Don Schablein, Xonkers, N. Y seaman.
 Peter A. Buss, Bethlehem, Pa, seaman.
 Karl Nilsson, Baltimore, Md, first assistant engineer.
 Virgil A. Sandelin, New York third assistant engineer.
 Richard Carlisle, Maywood, Calf fireman. Antonio Santos, Newark, N. J. chief cook.
 Hugh T. Murphy, East Boston