Sinking of Dixie Arrow

Date: March 26, 1942 • Location: Buxton, United States

The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.

SS Dixie Arrow was an American steam-powered oil tanker built in 1920–1921 in Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation. She was owned by the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) and operated through several subsidiaries and successive companies. The tanker was the last member of the Arrow class, a group of twelve oil tankers owned by Socony.