American tanker ss Montebello sunk by submarine according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 24 December 1941

An item referred to COM 12 reporting that the Union Oil tanker ss Montebello was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine on the position Latitude 35.40-Longitude 121.17 near Von Helm Rock (around 50 miles south of Monterey. Her crew used the lifeboats which were shelled by the submarine. Some survivors reached the shore. The J.I.C. commented possible the same submarine as the one which attacked the Larry Doheny.

Note

1. Laid down with yard number 21 by Southwestern Shipbuilding Co., San Pedro, USA on 20 April 1920, launched on 24 January 1921, commissioned on 9 March 1921 and sunk by Japanese submarine I-21 on 23 December 1941.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 14 dated December 1941.