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| U.S. Tanker SS Dixie Arrow burning off Cape Hatteras, March 26, 1942. |
On March 26, 1942, German (Type VIIC) U-boat, U-71, attacked American tanker SS Dixie Arrow in the Atlantic off the coast of North Carolina, about 12 miles off the Diamond Shoals Light Buoy. The tanker sank later in the day. Eleven dead and 22 survivors. USS Tarbell (DD-142) assisted in the recovery of survivors. The German submarine sank five Allied merchants including SS Dixie Arrow and the American merchant ship SS Oakmar only six days earlier. U-71 was scuttled on May 2, 1945.
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| Allied tanker Dixie Arrow torpedoed in Atlantic Ocean by German submarine. Ship crumbling amidships under heat of fire, settles toward bottom of ocean, March 26, 1942. |
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| SS Dixie Arrow. |
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| SS Dixie Arrow. |
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| American
Steam tanker Dixie Arrow, built in 1921 by the New York Shipbuilding
Corp, Camden NJ, owned by the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co Inc, New York. |
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| U.S. Tanker SS Dixie Arrow burning off Cape Hatteras, March 26, 1942. |