An item dated Stockholm 11 March referred to radio Boston which announced that the American tanker Golf Trade of 6,700 gross tons last Tuesday was torpedoed along the Atlantic coast line.(1)
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1. Roger Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. Mentioned a tanker called Gulftrade of the Gulf Oil Corporation of Pittsburgh of 6,776 gross registers tons, a deadweight of 11.250 tons and as dimensions 445’5” x 59’2” x 26’5” and a speed of 10.5 knots. Build in 1920 at the shipyard of the Sun Shipbuilding Company at Chester, Pennsylvania, The hull was black red-topped painted with a yellow black top ended funnel with between the black and yellow parts a red band with a white G.
