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Ger in the coming tower spoke to us
in German accent" he said.
The third engineer stayed in the
boat by the submarine for Is
minutes, he said. He had a good
view of the grinning cow mascot
picture painted on the coming
tower. He said he saw on the caps
of the submarine officers a Nazi
emblem.
The officers of the Robin Moor
were puzzled first and then angered
by the submarines command to
abandon ship.
The rules of my union Marine
Engineers Beneficiary Association,
CT. o. forbid me from serving on
a ship carrying contraband," ne said.
The engineer explained that the
submarine fired shells into the
Robin Moor wreckage after the ship
went down in order to sink the
water-tight crates of automobiles
which floated on surface.
The autos were deck cargo, he
said, and broke loose when the
vessel went down.
He added that automobile tires
were floating on the ocean when
his lifeboat pulled away.
"Lorricke" on Coming Tower.
Mr.. Sanderlin told a special Navy
board the details of the technique
used by the submarine. 1t marked
the first time the American Navy
has had a first-hand account of how
German submarines conduct them-
selves at sea during this war.
The survivor said he was familiar
with submarines and saw nothing
extraordinary in this one, which had
the name 'Lorricke" painted on its
coming tower in gray letters.
While he waited i'll the boat at the
submarine, he said, colleague of
his told him that under the subma-
rine's body paint could be seen The
obliterated lettering of French
word, but Mr.. Sanderlin said here
that from his post in he boat he
could not see this lettering
1T was plain as day TO anybody
we were on an American ship" Mr..
Sanderlin said
Flood lights illuminated the
American flag aft, The American
flag was painted on the ships side
The running lights showed that it
was American.
Missed by One Ship.
The third engineer was asleep in
the lifeboat when it was spotted
by the Brazilian ship Ozorio.
Apparently I was asleep or almost
asleep every time anything big hap
pened," the sailor said.
Five days before the Ozorio
sighted them, the IL occupants of
the lifeboat spent a day of long.
tantalizing agony as they watched
from $50 am. to pm. steamboat
proceeding along the horizon.
Those in the lifeboat could not
attract the steamboats, attention.
Say everything good you can
about the way they treated us on
, the Ozorio and the way the consul
and the BraZilians took care of us
in Pernambuco," Mr.. Sanderlin
urged newspapermen.
The Ozorio took the hfeboat sur
vivors to Pernambuco From there,
Mr. Sanderlin few to Miami and
from Miami, last night, he few to
Washington.
To Take Trip With Wife.
For the immediate future, he said,
he will take a trip with his wife
after he has gone to his home in
Richmond to see his daughter Jean
Anne, 7. who is i'll.
His wife saw him at the airport
this morning for the first time since
he kissed her good-by on the morn
ing of February IA, 1910, as he left
his house to go to his prosaic job
as driver of a laundry truck.
Instead of going to the laundry,
he said, he headed for the sea and
wound up in Venezuela, where he
worked in the oil fields.
His wife, knowing his yearning
for the sea, tried in vain to trace
him through the Missing Seamen's
Bureau. N
You know how it is" he said o.
day, in discussing his disappear
ance. When you get married your
wife likes you to stay home, but
like living on the ocean.
I'm going back to sea again. all
right. Uncle Sam needs us men in
the merchant marine now more than
he ever did before, and I'm not
going to be a piker just because I
got torpedoed once"
Mr.. Sanderlin said that he was
born within the sound of the wild
sea waves at Windsor, N. c., % years
ago. He went to sea first in 1928
out of San Francisco. He was mar
ried in 1888 and tried to settle down,
but it did not take.
He is a slight, thin man with
large, clear blue eyes. He speaks
still with a North Carolina accent.
Mrs. Sanderlin was accompanied at
the airport by Philip Williams, third
secretary of the American Embassy
in Rio de Janeiro. Mr.. Williams
flew to Washington several days
ago to report to the State Depart
ment on the Robin Moor incident.