The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.

SS Dorchester

World War II troop ship

Dorchester was a coastal passenger steamship requisitioned and operated by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) in January 1942 for wartime use as a troop ship allocated to United States Army requirements. The ship was operated for WSA by its agent Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies…