HERBRT L PRATT, OIL TANKER SUNK BY GERMAN U-BOAT 1918

HISTORY OF SHIPWRECKS

AMERICAN TANKER STEAMER HERBERT L. PRATT

MEXICO TO PHILADLEPHIA WITH OIL.

Abstract: Tuesday, 4 June 1918, Washington D. C. Evening Star

Philadelphia, PA., June 4, 1918:

The American Tanker Steamer Herbert L. Pratt, Mexico for Philadelphia with a cargo

of oil was sunk by a German U-boat, off Cape Henlopen and lays in the mouth of Delaware Bay. The British tanker Arco was also fired upon by the sub, but being light,

made her escape and was past Reedy Island last night by 10 pm.

Within 20 minutes of the Pratt sinking U.S. Naval vessels gave chase to the sub a short

time later fores upon an undersea object but thee is no report of the outcome of the occurrence.

The Pratt crew was landed at Cape Henlopen' s Fourth Naval Station and cared for that night.

The Pratt is four miles south by southeast of the Cape Henlopen Light House, her stern can be seen out of the water and she appears she can be raised .