How many men were lost on the USAT Arcata and was she loaded with troops when she was hit?
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Oregonian Newspaper August 6, 1942, page 5. Ship unnamed for security but only loss this date. Of 32 aboard there were 24 survivors, 5 died of wounds and/or exposure, another after rescue, 2 missing. Survivors included the Captain Christian Evensen. Engineer B. J. O'Brien age 34. Only other named was Seaman Isak Arneson age 60.
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14 July 1942:
N of Unalaska. Cdr Koizumi torpedoes and shells the 2,722-ton USAT freighter ARCATA (ex-GLYMONT) en route from Bethel, Alaska, to Seattle, Washington. In choppy seas the I-7's gun crew has trouble hitting their target. Once ARCATA's bridge is hit, the crew and the passengers abandon ship. I-7 ceases firing after life rafts are spotted, but not before a merchant sailor is killed. ARCATA sinks at 53-41N, 157-45W.
U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged in Pacific Area during World War II:
07/14/42, Arcata (USAT), Freighter, Sunk by Torpedo, Deaths: Crew 8
The little attention accorded to the event seems to indicate that nothing major happened there; apparently there were 20 people on board, 12 survived, 8 perished.
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