desc=World War II: During a voyage from Port Townsend, Washington, to Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska, with a cargo of highly flammable cargo of fuel, the Liberty ship, operating as a cargo ship for the United States Army was torpedoed by ship Japanese submarine I-180 2 (Empire of Japan) and broke in two in the Pacific Ocean at coord, approximately 20 nautical miles southeast of Sanak Island in the Fox Islands subgroup of the Aleutian Islands.