Torpedoed by U158
On June 12, 1942, Cities Service Toledo was on a voyage to Portland, Maine with a cargo of 84,000 barrels of crude oil, when she was torpedoed by U-158, 20 miles east of Trinity Shoals Gas Buoy, 29 02N, 91 59W. 11 of her complement of 36 as well as 4 of the 9 gunners died in the flames.
