THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
 
MEMORANDUM
 
July 15, 1942
 
TO: THE PRESIDENT
FROM: MR. LUBIN
 
           We have just received some preliminary figures from London on shipping losses for the
week ending last Sunday (July 12).These figures show a loss for the week of something in excess
of half a million tons of shipping. Final figures for the week will not be available for three or four
days. This is the highest loss for any week on record.
 
          Twenty-two of the ships lost during the week were on the Murmansk-Archangel run.
Seventeen were proceeding eastward and were loaded, and five were sailing west without cargo.