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20 Jun 1942

United States
  • Japanese submarine I-25 torpedoed the 7,000-ton Canadian steamer SS Fort Camosun 70 miles south of Cape Flattery, Washington. As the freighter’s crew took to the lifeboats, I-25 surfaced and fired 18 shells from her deck gun. Fort Camosun did not sink, however, and was kept afloat by her cargo of plywood and timber. The crew was later rescued by Canadian corvette HMCS Edmundston and tugs towed Fort Camosun to shore where she was later repaired. (After repairs, Fort Camosun sailed with her cargo to England, narrowly escaping another submarine attack by a German U-Boat in the Atlantic. Even later, she evaded a third submarine attack in the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean. Thus, Fort Camosun earned the dubious distinction of surviving submarine attacks in all three ocean theaters of World War II.) ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Cape Flattery, Washington | DS]



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