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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

*Gelegotis bridge over Stono River is dedicated
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-18-04

*State agency says it's not interested in selling park but county wants to make sure it's protected from erosion
-Carolina Morning News, 5-18-04

*Some boaters who have used the county's North End Boat Ramp on Amelia Island at low tide have discovered rocks below the river's surface that have scraped boat bottoms and chewed outboard motors
*Fernandian Beach News Leader, 5-14-04

*NOAA forecasters are predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season
-St Augustine Record, 5-18-04

*Volusia County officials haven't decided on a new gathering place for the lifeguards and Beach Patrol officers who are charged with overseeing the surf
-Daytona News Journal, 5-18-04

cracks in the forward hull, she was now out of the fight. The massed U-Boats threaten to overwhelm ONS 5.

Although Lieutenant commander Sherwood was the Escort protagonist in this drama being played out in the Atlantic Ocean, with his very limited number of defenders available opposed to the huge number of U-Boats massed nearby, it was nigh impossible for him to keep all the enemy submerged, and thereby largely
neutralized. The U-Boats threatened to overwhelm his escorts and slaughter his convoy charges.

More surface attacks.
Kptlt. Rolf Manke on the surface in his U-358, at 0144 ( 1.44 AM ) was able to clearly note several ships from his bridge, their course 200 degrees, one ship stopped to collect survivors. Using a fan shot from tubes 11 and 111, he aimed at his target, hove to, only 1,500 meters away. Two explosions soon resulted, the
steamer broke in two, and quickly sank, he gave it a tonnage of 8,000.

Against the next target a single torpedo was ordered to be fired, it stuck in its tube, but was finally persuaded to run, this fish soon struck, and a steamer of about 6,000 tons disappeared. In hindsight, U-358 had certainly hit her two targets, but Manke's estimation of tonnage was way out, the first ship, Bristol City, so
rudely interupted on her way to New York, was only of 2,804 tons, full of China Clay used for making porcelain or china. Of her 44 crew, 15 perished.

The second ship to be struck was the 5,512 ton SS Wentworth, running in ballast, Loosestrike, collected 42 survivors from a list of 47 who sailed in her.

Convoy ONS 5 over the darkness that obtained on the 4/5 May had lost 7 ships, it could well have been many more with 36 boats ranged up against them, but Sherwood and his