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On 1 May 1941, at 4.11 am, the Janeta II was torpedoed by U-181 900 miles (1,448 km) south-west of Ascension Island, off the coast of Brazil, in position 18°14'S/20°00'W. Of the crew of 48 sailors, nine and four gunners lost their lives. On the 12th, the American destroyer escort USS Alger (DE-101) rescued ten of them. On the 14th, fifteen others were picked up by the Swedish cargo ship Freja south of Bahia and taken back to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The captain and nine sailors reached Belmonte on the 17th and were rescued on the 20th by a small coaster that landed them in Bahia.
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Page 132 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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