The tv program "Ocean of Fear" recounts the sinking of a ship that served as the flagship for who in 1943 and 1944?
Ocean of Fear Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever is a television program that launched the 20th anniversary of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week of 2007. It recounts the sinking of the USS "Indianapolis". The show initially aired on July 29, 2007, on the eve of the anniversary of the ship’s sinking in 1945.
SS Santa Rita (1941) SS "Santa Rita" was a refrigerated cargo ship built for the United States Maritime Commission by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey in 1941. Operated by the Grace Line, "Santa Rita" en route from Cape Town to Charleston, South Carolina, when she was attacked by German submarine "U-172" on 9 July 1942. Steaming on a non-evasive course at 16 knots 700 nmi northeast of Puerto Rico, a single torpedo from "U-172" hit the ship in the near the engine room. The explosion destroyed the engines; opened a 30 ft hole in the hull of the ship, which immediately flooded the No. 3 cargo hold; and killed one officer and two men. After ten minutes, the ship's master, Henry Stephenson, ordered the ship abandoned, although most of the surviving officers and crew and the ship's two passengers had already boarded the Nos. 3 and 4 lifeboats.