US supply ship sunk by U-boat

17th August 1941: As the Battle of the Atlantic intensifies, three men out of twenty-seven survive an ordeal in the Atalantic, drifting on an open raft

The Danish ship ‘Sessa’ was taken over by the US Maritime Commission on the 2nd August 1941 and re-registered as the Longtaker.

In the first of several incidents that led Roosevelt to change the rules of engagement for the United States Navy, a US-owned ship was sunk by a German U-boat in international waters. She was not part of a convoy supplying munit…