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IIRC, it was the Government's secrets act. Time finally ran out. I will see if I can track it down.Meatloaf, was that from shipping and receiving documents? Classified, of course.
They say it went down in like 18 minutes. Something like that. And half that time it's just sitting there with its ass-end up for its nose having been stuck in the mud in 300 foot of water. How does an 800 foot liner like that go down that decisively and dramatically? I think you all know where I'm going with this. What do you think? That must have been some torpedo.
I'd imagine it would have been reflected or accounted for in the shipping and receiving documents, too, in some form or other (as "classified cargo," or some bullshit like that). At any rate, I could understand it being secreted. It's blood on our hands.IIRC, it was the Government's secrets act. Time finally ran out. I will see if I can track it down.
There was no secrecy, the munitions she carried were in the final cargo manifesto given to US Customs, and this fact was made public in the days after the sinking, though British propaganda downplayed this fact .I believe that the secrecy ban imposed on the sinking ended a couple of years ago and it was revealed that the ship was carrying some 4,000,000 rounds of small arms ammo, as well as guncotton.
So,....
The captain of the U-20 had previously deliberately fired at a British hospital ship, but fortunately the torpedo missed.They could have put another in her, too, but the sub commander couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger. .