EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1945, PAGE ONE
VIRGIL HOMER DAWLEY, JR., son of Mrs. Hazel Dawley of 968 Alder street, was awarded posthumously the mariner's medal. He was a merchant seaman, one of 33 men who lost their lives when the H.D. Collier, Standard Oil tanker, was torpedoed. There were but 14 survivors of the marine disaster, the passengers of a single lifeboat. The ship, called the oil company's pride, was built in 1938 at a cost of two million dollars, and had weight of 12,700 tons. She was struck three times, after which the submarine raider surfaced and shelled the decks of the tanker.
(Furnished by Eric Ackerman, Topeka, Kansas)
VIRGIL HOMER DAWLEY, JR., son of Mrs. Hazel Dawley of 968 Alder street, was awarded posthumously the mariner's medal. He was a merchant seaman, one of 33 men who lost their lives when the H.D. Collier, Standard Oil tanker, was torpedoed. There were but 14 survivors of the marine disaster, the passengers of a single lifeboat. The ship, called the oil company's pride, was built in 1938 at a cost of two million dollars, and had weight of 12,700 tons. She was struck three times, after which the submarine raider surfaced and shelled the decks of the tanker.
(Furnished by Eric Ackerman, Topeka, Kansas)
EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1945, PAGE ONE
VIRGIL HOMER DAWLEY, JR., son of Mrs. Hazel Dawley of 968 Alder street, was awarded posthumously the mariner's medal. He was a merchant seaman, one of 33 men who lost their lives when the H.D. Collier, Standard Oil tanker, was torpedoed. There were but 14 survivors of the marine disaster, the passengers of a single lifeboat. The ship, called the oil company's pride, was built in 1938 at a cost of two million dollars, and had weight of 12,700 tons. She was struck three times, after which the submarine raider surfaced and shelled the decks of the tanker.
(Furnished by Eric Ackerman, Topeka, Kansas)
VIRGIL HOMER DAWLEY, JR., son of Mrs. Hazel Dawley of 968 Alder street, was awarded posthumously the mariner's medal. He was a merchant seaman, one of 33 men who lost their lives when the H.D. Collier, Standard Oil tanker, was torpedoed. There were but 14 survivors of the marine disaster, the passengers of a single lifeboat. The ship, called the oil company's pride, was built in 1938 at a cost of two million dollars, and had weight of 12,700 tons. She was struck three times, after which the submarine raider surfaced and shelled the decks of the tanker.
(Furnished by Eric Ackerman, Topeka, Kansas)
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