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Charles C. Pinckney

Ship Designation: 
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Date Lost: 
Wednesday, January 27, 1943
U-Boat Attack near the Azores
The Liberty Ship Charles C. Pinckney was torpedoed by U-514 while en route to North Africa . The initial engagement began when a torpedo struck a few feet back from the stern. Engines were secured and the order was given to abandon ship. Once the U-boat surfaced, Naval Armed Guard shelled it with four out of five shells landing. The Officer in charge was certain the U-Boat sank. The was abandoned ... The next morning the ship was seen to be still afloat. The Second Mate returned and signaled the other lifeboats to return. When the second U-Boat was seen approaching the ship was abandoned immediately. ... The three lifeboats from the ship were separated after the January 28. One lifeboat was discovered on February 8, the others were never seen again.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 55

Name Service Branchsort descending
A.B. Ralph Kelley USMM
Deck Engineer George Urpin USMM
F/W Rolf Reitan USMM
Chief Engineer John Kennington USMM
Utility Curtis Wilkes USMM
Oiler Crispin Sanjurjo USMM
A.B. Charles Lewis USMM
3rd Engineer Stanley Young USMM
Wiper Eugene Mapes USMM
2nd Engineer Theodore Scharpf USMM
O.S. Norman Rivers USMM
Jr. Engineer Aleksander Kilk USMM
3rd Mate Walter Rudt USMM
A.B. Louis Parks USMM
O.S. Carroll Schuster USMM
Bosun David Sauer USMM
Cox Gordon Dentinger USN
Sea 1c Peter Penyak USN
Sea 1c John Peacher USN
Sea 1c Edward Olson USN

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