It is afternoon and I have a few minutes to spare, so here goes.
Fred Eldredge just told me he had a letter from his wife, in which she told of getting a letter from him marked “S.S. Covington” and reading in the paper the same day that the Covington had been sunk. Of course she didn’t know that his letter was mailed after we were safe over and that the boat was hit when on the way back empty.
USS Covington Wikipedia Entry. Includes pictures of the ship sinking.
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Letters from Sidney Friend During The Great War 