Eastern_Sword
Eastern Sword
Steam merchant ship
Eastern Sword was an unarmed 3,785-ton steam merchant ship that was completed in 1920 at the Uraga Dry Dock Co. Ltd, Uraga, Japan. She was owned by the Sword Line Inc., New York, New York, and she was homeported out of this same city. The vessel was torpedoed and sunk on 4 May 1942 by the German submarine U-162 about twelve miles (19 km) off the Georgetown Light, Trinidad. 13 of the 38 crew survived.