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Survivors Reach San Juan After Smith Voyager Sinking
The German freighter Mathilde Bolten sails toward San Juan with 34 survivors and four dead from the American merchant ship Smith Voyager after it cracked a seam in mid Atlantic. Four survivors were injured. The Smith Voyager abandoned ship after SOS signals and was sinking 820 miles east southeast of Bermuda. The Coast Guard sought a doctor for the Mathilde Bolten and anticipated a rendezvous.
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mid-Atlantic
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Cuenta
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Bermuda
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