SS Dorchester
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Dorchester was a coastal passenger steamship requisitioned and operated by the War Shipping Administration in January 1942 for wartime use as a troop ship allocated to United States Army requirements.
SS Dorchester
Coast Guard cutter Escanaba rescues Dorchester survivors, February 3, 1943.
The Immortal ChaplainsIssue of 1948
Labrador Sea
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The Labrador Sea is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It connects t
SS Dorchester
…for WSA by its agent Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines). The ship was in convoy SG 19 from New York to Greenland transiting the Labrador Sea when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat on February 3, 1943. The ship sank with loss of 674 of the 904 on board with one of the 230 survivors lost…
Past sunset at Labrador Sea, off the coast of Paamiut (Frederikshåb), Greenland
Major North Atlantic currents
Close up of a Labrador tea flower