Tugboats pull the SS Horace Binney to deeper water after the cargo ship was struck by a German torpedo on May 8, 1945.
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Binney, Caroline Thorn of New York City and "Oakleigh" in Barrington, RI, died unexpectedly on April 20, 2012.
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