 The SS "Black Point" would be the last American-flagged merchant ship to be sunk in WWII.Of those aboard, 11 crewmen and one Navy guard died; 34 others were rescued by nearby vessels.A radio report about the torpedoing from one of the rescue ships, the SS "Kamen", was picked up by US Navy's Eastern Sea Frontier command in New York and by the 1st Naval District in Boston.