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	USAT Dorchester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		USAT Dorchester was a United States Army Transport, sunk when part of a naval convoy during World War II.
		The damage was severe, and Dorchester sunk in under 15 minutes, taking about 600 men with her out of a total crew of 902.
		Dorchester is best remembered today for the story of the Four Chaplains who went down with her.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/u/us/usat_dorchester.html (197 words)

	Four Army Chaplains
		The Dorchester, one of three ships in the SG-19 convoy, was moving steadily across the icy waters from Newfoundland toward an American base in Greenland.
		The Dorchester was now only 150 miles from its destination, but the captain ordered the men to sleep in their clothing and keep life jackets on.
		Shortly after the USAT DORCHESTER was sunk February 3, 1943, his wife, Betty, gave birth to a daughter, Susan Elizabeth, on April 20.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/WW2_Four_Army_Chaplains.htm (2567 words)

	Dorchester House
		Dorchester is a market town in south west Dorset, England, situated on the River Frome and A35 road 20 miles west of Poole and five miles north of Weymouth.
		Dorchester, Oxfordshire (Dorchester-on-Thames, anciently the seat of the Bishop of Dorchester) Dorchester in Dorset was central in the organisation of the emigration of puritans to North America in the 17th century, which is why: Dorchester is also the name of some places in Canada:
		USAT ''Dorchester'' was famous for the Four Chaplains.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/51/dorchester-house.html (665 words)

	U.S. stamp commemorating the four chaplains
		The USAT Dorchester, a luxury cruise liner converted to a troop transport ship, was torpedoed and sunk as part of a naval convoy during World War II.
		The Dorchester was severely damaged, and eyewitnesses recounted the ship sunk in 15-25 minutes, taking about 600 men with her out of a total crew of 902.
		On board the Dorchester were the four chaplains: George Fox, a former Methodist circuit riding preacher; David Goode, a rabbi from York, Pennsylvania; Clark Poling, a Yale Divinity School graduate and a pastor from Schenectady, New York; and John Washington, a Catholic priest serving a parish in Arlington, New Jersey.
	www.milechai.com /jewishstamps/united-states-stamps/chaplains.html (260 words)

	The Log
		On Feb. 2, 1943, the former luxury coaster had been drafted into the Army and converted into USAT Dorchester; it carried 902 Army servicemen, merchant mariners, and civilians from Newfoundland to a U.S. base in Greenland, an area of the North Atlantic filled with dangerous and deadly U-boats.
		The Dorchester’s captain, aware of the dangers and informed by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Tampa, an escort ship, that U-boats had been detected in the area, ordered his passengers to sleep with lifejackets on that night.
		In the last minutes before the Dorchester sank beneath the frigid waters, the four chaplains handed their own lifejackets to four servicemen, regardless of religious affiliations.
	www.thelog.com /printer/article.asp?c=84327 (1424 words)

	USAT Dorchester (5.6.2006)
		1942: Ivigtut (BW7) USAT Dorchester and SS Alcoa Pilot to Ikateq (BE2) on the east coast escorted by Northland (WPG-49), North Star (WPG-59) and Comanche (WPG-76), arrived on the 17.
		1943: USAT Dorchester was sunk when part of convoy SG-19 from St. John's, Newfoundland, bound for the BW1 at Narsarssuaq.
		SG-19 consisted of six ships: USAT Dorchester, two merchant ships leased by the United States from the Norwegian government-in-exile, D/S Lutz, and D/S Biscaya.
	www.warcovers.dk /greenland/transport_dorchester.htm (162 words)

	GoArmy.com > Army Chaplain Corps > News Article
		Arlington, VA — Marking the 60th anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester, organizations around the country will host commemorative ceremonies in honor of the four U.S. Army Chaplains who perished in the attack when the USAT Dorchester was torpedoed in the North Atlantic on February 3, 1943.
		Trained to minister on the frontlines, four Army Chaplains — all of different faiths — aboard the USAT Dorchester were among the first on deck, calming the men, handing out life jackets, directing them to lifeboats, and, by eyewitness account, turning over their own life jackets and gloves that others might survive.
		Other organizations honoring the 60th anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester include the World War II Veterans Committee, the Chapel of the Four Chaplains in Valley Forge, PA with chapters across the country, and numerous Army chapel communities.
	www.goarmy.com /chaplain/news_detail.jsp?article=story07 (544 words)

	Dorchester (disambiguation) at AllExperts
		Dorchester, Oxfordshire (Dorchester-on-Thames, anciently the seat of the Bishop of Dorchester*)
		Dorchester in Dorset was central in the organisation of the emigration of puritans to North America in the 17th century, which is why:
		Dorchester is also the name of some places in the United States of America:
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/do/dorchester_(disambiguation).htm (224 words)

	Home
		At 1 a.m., February 3, 1943, a torpedo from a German submarine ripped through the hull of the Dorchester, and the ship began to descend rapidly into the freezing arctic waters.
		Meet the producer and director of "The Four Chaplains," the Emmy and Oscar-winning filmmaker James Moll.
		Sea of Glory: A Novel Based on the True World War II Story of the Four Chaplains and the USAT Dorchester (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2001).
	www.fourchaplains.tv (625 words)

	Gallery 1
		One, the U.S. Army Transport Dorchester, can be seen in the background while another escort ship, the CGC Comanche, is barely visible on the horizon.
		The USAT Dorchester sinking as described to me by several survivors.
		It depicts the early morning prior to the DORCHESTER sinking.
	coastguardpics.net /id1.html (1612 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from No Greater Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In fact, one of the Dorchester's two sister ships, the Chatham, was the first American troopship sunk in the war.
		On August 27, 1942, the USAT Chatham was torpedoed and sent to the bottom of the Strait of Belle Isle.
		The Dorchester was sailing the ice-packed North Atlantic waters with 900 passengers and crewmen: 597 military men, who would replace those based in Greenland since Pearl Harbor; 171 civilians, mostly engineers and Danish workers under contract to the Department of War; and 132 crewmen.
	www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/16729?book=No_Greater_Glory:_The_Four_Immortal_Chaplains_and_the_Sinking_of_the_Dorchester_in_World_War_II (2393 words)

	:: The Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It was the evening of Feb. 2, 1943, and the U.S.A.T. Dorchester was crowded to capacity, carrying 902 service men, merchant seamen and civilian workers.
		The U-223 approached the convoy on the surface, and after identifying and targeting the ship, he gave orders to fire the torpedoes, a fan of three were fired.
		When the news reached American shores, the nation was stunned by the magnitude of the tragedy and heroic conduct of the four chaplains.
	www.fourchaplains.org /story.html (996 words)

	Comanche, WPG-76
		Arriving on the 28th she met the SS Dorchester in Tungliarfik Fjord and escorted the transport to Bluie West One, arriving there on 3 May 1942.
		The COMANCHE was part of a convoy escort when the transport DORCHESTER was torpedoed at mid-night, February 3rd, 1943, and went down in less than twenty minutes with a crew of 150 and 850 Army passengers aboard.
		On 15 December she detached to investigate a distress message from the USAT Nevada in position 56° 35' N x 49° 10' W to which position the Comanche proceeded at full speed.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/webcutters/Comanche_WPG_76.html (3624 words)

	Military.com Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The four men were assigned to the USAT Dorchester, a former luxury liner filled to capacity in February 1943 with 751 troops.
		No one knows which of the four gave up his vest first, but a witness said, "It was the finest thing I have ever seen this side of heaven." Fox and his colleagues then linked arms and held tight against the starboard-listing deck as each prayed in his own words to their one God.
		The Dorchester and the four brave chaplains soon disappeared beneath the waves.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent/1,12044,ML_gfox_bkp,00.html (534 words)

	People News - February 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This was the USAT Dorchester, which was in a convoy with five other ships.
		The USAT (United States Army Transport) Dorchester was the biggest ship in the convoy, being 367 ft long.
		Then if the Dorchester is torpedoed, you will have a much better chance of survival if fully clothed." Unfortunately, some of the men did not heed this warning and stripped down to their "skivvies" (undershirts and under-shorts).
	www.thepeoplenews.com /February06/page18.html (1272 words)

	Cross Blogging
		Below is a brief excerpts from the story of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester.
		In the early morning of February 3, 1943, a German U-Boat attacked the USAT Dorchester.
		Of the 920 men who boarded the U.S.A.T Dorchester on January 23rd, only 230 were rescued from the icy waters.
	xbip.com /?p=648 (1870 words)

	Four Chaplains
		On January 23, 1943, the USAT Dorchester left New York harbor bound for Greenland carrying 902 officers, servicemen and civilian workers.
		The C.O. of the Dorchester ordered the men to sleep in their clothing, with life jackets close at hand.
		No Greater Love features two hours of interviews with survivors of the sinking of the Dorchester, rescuers of the terrified men, and naval historians; along with archival recordings and vivid recreations of that night in February 1943 when nearly 700 men lost their lives in one of the greatest naval tragedies of World War II.
	www.wwiivets.com /FourChaplains.htm (482 words)

	Conservative Book Club: No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II ...
		Near midnight on February 3, 1943, the troop carrier USAT Dorchester was pushing through the freezing seas off the coast of Greenland when a torpedo shattered her starboard side.
		Drawing on extensive interviews with the chaplains' families and the crews of both the Dorchester and the German submarine that fired the fatal torpedo, Kurzman re-creates the intimate circumstances and great historic events that culminated in that terrible night.
		The final hours unfold with the electrifying clarity of nightmare -- the chaplains taking charge of the dwindling supply of life jackets, the panic of the crew, the overcrowded lifeboats, the prayers that ring out over the chaos, and the tight circle that the four chaplains form as the inevitable draws near.
	www.conservativebookclub.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6496 (725 words)

	The Four Chaplains
		The U.S.A.T. Dorchester was an aging, luxury coastal liner that was no longer luxurious.
		Quiet moments passed as silent death reached out for the men of the Dorchester, then the early morning was shattered by the flash of a blinding explosion and the roar of massive destruction.
		Of the 920 men who left New York on the U.S.A.T. Dorchester on January 23rd, only 230 were plucked from the icy waters by rescue craft.
	www.homeofheroes.com /brotherhood/chaplains.html (3402 words)

	Amazon.com: No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II: Books: Dan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II.
		The final hours unfold with the electrifying clarity of nightmare—the chaplains taking charge of the dwindling supply of life jackets, the panic of the crew, the overcrowded lifeboats, the prayers that ring out over the chaos, and the tight circle that the four chaplains form as the inevitable draws near.
		Riveting and inspiring, this is a true story of heroism, of goodness in the face of disaster, and of faith that transfigures even the horror of war.
	www.amazon.com /No-Greater-Glory-Chaplains-Dorchester/dp/product-description/0375508775 (3186 words)

	Add a Magazine Article from the JWV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It was near midnight on February 3, 1943, the troop carrier USAT Dorchester was pushing through the freezing sea off the coast of Greenland when a German submarineâs torpedo shattered her starboard side.
		He was in a life boat and saw the Dorchester sink as the four chaplains were together on the deck, their hands entwined and each saying their prayers.
		Kurzman has a listing of the names of all the people who were on the Dorchester when it sank: He has listed those who survived and died and their branch of service.
	www.jwv.org /communication/detailart.cfm?ID=273 (361 words)

	The History Place - Four Chaplains
		In February of 1943, the U.S. Army transport ship, Dorchester, full to capacity, was carrying 751 passengers, 130 crew members and 23 naval personnel on its journey from Newfoundland to an American military base in Greenland.
		The Dorchester was one of three transports in a small convoy, accompanied by three U.S. Coast Guard cutters.
		Seas were rough and the Dorchester rode the waves poorly, dipping and swaying, bouncing and trembling as it plowed along through the winter flness.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/heroes/four-chaplains.htm (2851 words)

	USATODAY.com - Black America's new diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		BOSTON — The children stepping off school buses in the Dorchester section of this city are fl.
		But fls in Dorchester are as varied as the aromas wafting from the Jamaican and Cape Verdean restaurants along Bowdoin Street.
		The homelands of many fl immigrants have a history of slavery, but the immigrants don't equate that with America's legacy of slavery, says Massachusetts state Rep. Marie St. Fleur, a Haitian-American whose district includes parts of the Dorchester neighborhood.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-02-16-black-america-diversity-usat_x.htm (1003 words)

	Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
		No doubt Captain Danielson, the Dorchester's skipper, was aware of the infractions, but certainly he had some sympathy for the men, and in any case there was little he could do.
		The Dorchester and her Coast Guard escorts were entering a section of the Atlantic known as Torpedo Alley.
		Their skills had been put to the test aboard the Dorchester when seasickness and an uncertain future in combat were thrown into the mix.
	www.boomantribune.com /story/2005/9/11/11635/2230 (2039 words)

	Calvin College: Calvin News
		The quartet of chaplains, which included members of the Reformed, Jewish, Roman Catholic and Methodist faiths, made the ultimate sacrifice in February 1943 when their ship, the USAT Dorchester, was sunk by a German U-boat in the icy waters off Greenland.
		More than 900 American servicemen were on the Dorchester when a German torpedo struck the crowded ship and exploded in the boiler room.
		One survivor later observed, "It was the finest thing I have seen, or hope to see, this side of heaven." Nearly 700 servicemen lost their lives with the chaplains.
	www.calvin.edu /news/releases/2001_02/wales.htm (704 words)

	The Story of the Immortal Chaplains
		A convoy of three ships and three escorting Coast Guard cutters passed through "torpedo alley" some 100 miles off the coast of Greenland at about 1 a.m.
		The submarine U-223 fired three torpedoes, one of which hit the midsection of the Dorchester, a U.S. Army troopship with more than 900 men on board.
		Ammonia and oil were everywhere in the fast-sinking vessel and upon the freezing sea.
	www.immortalchaplains.org /Story/story.htm (338 words)

	Rachel Zabarkes Friedman on Dan Kurzman's No Greater Glory on National Review Online
		Shortly after midnight on February 3, 1943, a German U-boat fired a torpedo into the USAT Dorchester, an American troop carrier on its way to Greenland.
		Eventually they were assigned to the Dorchester, a run-down former luxury liner that set sail for Greenland on January 23, 1943.
		Kurzman sets the scene early on when he quotes one of the Dorchester's men describing the ship as "a rust-covered thing, very cramped," and when he pauses on Warish's sinking feeling on first exploring it.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/friedman200408170845.asp (1343 words)

	8th Annual FOUR CHAPLAINS SERVICE February 19th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It was their actions in the chaos that followed that has endeared the Four Chaplains to all generations.
		After distributing the last life vest, the Chaplains offered their own, and chose to minister to the sick and dying on the deck of the sinking Dorchester and praying with one another as the ship sank beneath the icy North Atlantic waters.
		Tom Bingol shares, “The story of the Four Chaplains of the USAT Dorchester is timeless.
	www.heartbeatofflagler.com /jukebox/chaplins.html (500 words)

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