British planes are reinforcing American patrols guarding the United States coastline, it was revealed Monday, co-incident with disclosure of the loss of two more Allied merchantmen, one by U-boat action.
A British radio announcement that Swordfish torpedo planes were being based in Cuba to aid United States naval and army air forces was confirmed by an official British source in Havana.
The sinking attributed to the U-boat was the 18th such action announced since last Wednesday and the seventh during the weekend. Approximately 50 ships have been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast of the United States since mid-January.
All 27 crew members of the latest U-boat victim were rescued from open boats in which they had drifted 11 days.
News of the second shipping loss came from an East Canadian port where a merchant ship, believed to have gone aground during bad weather, was observed burning fiercely.
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