American merchant ship ss Wacosta stopped and searched by a German submarine according to a report of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

Diary note dated September 1939. An item reported that the American ss Wacosta underway from Glasgow, Scotland to New York, USA was stopped, visited and searched by a German submarine on 9 September.(1)

Note

1. Built by Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, Harriman, Pa., owner in 1939 Waterman S.S. Corporation, Mobile, USA.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)