#onto the sloop list it goes

[beneathsilverstars]

i've been going through my entire spotify liked songs list one by one to pick out which songs are about siffrin and i'm SO MAD bc i keep finding SLOOP SONGS!!! this is not what i'm looking for here!!!!!!! i made a list for them ofc but why does it have more songs than the isafrin list. probably bc songs about fucked up disasters go harder than sweet lovey songs sorry isa

[sandyhookhistory]

(Saturday) March 13, 1943 – Part 1 of 3) “A Bloody Attack on Convoy OS-44” Eighty Years Ago Today, U-107 (IXB), one of the most successful U-Boats of all time, has 33 ships sunk to her credit. She is on patrol, operating as part of Wolfpack “Robbe” (German for ‘seal’) when she finds easy prey and tears into Convoy OS-44, 214 miles west of Cape Finistere, Portugal. Her spread of torpedoes is aimed with surgical precision. In short order, she adds four more ships to her kill list, with heavy loss of life. They are (in photo order): “SS Clan Alpine,” a British steamer goes first. She doesn’t sink right away, and has to be put out of her misery by the escorting HMS Scarborough (L25/U25), a Folkstone-Class sloop. There are 28 Dead, and 66 Survivors. The “SS Marcella,” another British steamer, does not share the same good fortunes. She goes down with All Hands. There are No Survivors, of her crew of 44 crew. A third British steamer, “SS Oporto,” also sustains heavy losses in her sinking. She loses 43 Dead, with just 4 Survivors. They are rescued by the Flower-Class Corvette HMS Spiraea (K 08). “SS Sembilangan,” a Dutch steamer, dies violently. The torpedo detonates her cargo of ammunition, and the ship simply vanishes, disintegrating in a massive explosion. 86 of her crewmen are vaporized in an instant. Only one man survives. Blown over the side like a champagne cork, he survives both the blast an and the impact with the water. He clambers onto a drifting life-raft from the sunken Oporto, and is rescued by HMS Spiraea. Four more ships sunk and 201 men dead in a matter of minutes. U-107 slithers off. One attack ends here, but two others are just beginning. Another day grinds on… (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpvp7HmgWYc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=