American attack transport President Polk attacked by enemy submarine according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 3 March 1942

An item reported that an enemy submarine attacked without success the screw steamship President Polk around 300 miles south west of Bombay, India. The J.I.C. commented that was until the northern most attack in that area until then.(1)

Note

1. The President Jackson-class attack transport laid down as MCV Type C3-P&C hull 110 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia, USA on 7 October 1940, launched on 28 June 1941, chartered by the US government as transport since 5 December 1941, requisitioned by the US Navy on 6 September 1943, converted into a troop ship (AP-103), decommissioned on 26 January 1946, stricken on 25 February 1946 and returned to APL and finally broken up at Taiwan in 1970.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 83 dated 3 March 1942.