Louis W. Arnold Jr. special commissioner in admiralty in Brooklyn, reported yesterday that 593 claims totaling $3,477,629 have been filed against the 5,473 ton Spanish freighter Navemar by passengers who arrived here on the grimy, fever-ridden ship Sept. 12 after a forty-eight-day voyage from Seville, Spain.
The Navemar was sunk by an unknown submarine several days ago 150 miles off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. The sinking was verified in New York yesterday. The claims against the ship here are specifically directed at the Campania Espanola de Navigacion Marilima, of Barcelona, owners of the vessel. When the ship arrived here it carried 769 passengers, mostly Jewish refugees, packed sardine-like into quarters originally intended for twenty-eight persons at most. Another 345 passengers were disembarked at Havana. The claims for refunds of passage money amount to $125,706.58; for personal damages, $2,943,333; and for property damage, $358,568.65.
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