sentences: "Ural Maru" was torpedoed in the South China Sea and sunk on 27 September 1944 by the American submarine approximinately west of Luzon at coordinates ()
  
  As narrated by Ramesh S Benegal in his book, it was around eight in the morning when they were about to start their breakfast, when there was a loud explosion.The uneaten bowls of soup fell over and there was another explosion some distance away from the ship.