10/6/1939 EJ 9472 Central Atlantic 97th day at sea
On September 30th, the Admiral Graf Spee sank the British freighter Clement off Pernambuco with this new development Schiff 35 began her trek east towards Freetown. enroute she sank a 2 ship convoy consisting of the liner PACIFIC STAR 9.889 grt and the freighter SILVER 3.672 grt both were sunk by artillery afterwards 2 hours were spent picking up 137 survivors. The Silver did send one radio message that was acknowledged by Freetown. In light of this Hartmann has no choice but to ditch yet again his minelaying plans and instead make for Central Atlantic as the Graf Spee has the entire South Atlantic to himself.
