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    SS Antilla (or "ES Antilla", with "ES" standing for "Elektroschiff" German: electric ship) was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) cargo ship that was launched...
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  • USS Antilla (1904), a US Navy cargo ship SS Antilla (1939), a Hamburg America Line cargo ship scuttled by her crew off Aruba in 1940 Susan Antilla, freelance...
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  • in Hamburg and completed in 1939. She was one of three sister ships launched in 1939 for HAPAG. She and her sister Antilla were built by Deutsche Werft...
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    locations. The island has several airplane wrecks, and the wreck of the SS Antilla (1939) is one of the largest dive-able wrecks in the Caribbean. The men's...
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    USS Saturn (AK-49) (redirect from SS Sting)
    USS Saturn (AK-49) was a German cargo ship, built in 1939 as ES Arauca. ("ES" stands for "Electroschiff", meaning German: electric ship.) In 1941 before...
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  • SS Stanwood was a British collier that was sunk off Falmouth in December 1939 after her cargo of coal caught fire. The ship was built in 1915 by the Reiherstieg...
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    167°14′6.78″E / 15.5242000°S 167.2352167°E / -15.5242000; 167.2352167 SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in...
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    SS Arlington was a Great Lakes steamship which sunk after breaking apart on Lake Superior on May 1, 1940. The wreck was discovered in 2023. Built in the...
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    number 945. She was launched in November 1938 and commissioned in February 1939. U-40 conducted two war patrols during her career. Both of which were part...
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    shipyard in Birkenhead on 1 January 1937, although it was not until 3 May 1939 that she was launched. She was still fitting out when war was declared in...
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  • SS Binnendijk was a Holland America Line (NASM) cargo steamship. She was one of NASM's "B" class ships: the company's first cargo ships to be powered by...
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    America Line Scandinavian America Line Swedish American Line SS Cleveland SS Hertford SS Imperator USS President Lincoln "Hapag Halle Museum Cuxhaven"...
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    ORP Orzeł (1938) (category Maritime incidents in September 1939)
    Job No. 205; launched on 15 January 1938, and commissioned on 2 February 1939. She was a modern design (designed by the joint venture of Polish and Dutch...
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  • Retrieved 13 May 2014. "SS Antilla (+1940)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 18 August 2023. Jordan, Roger (1999). The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing...
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    SS Zealandia, nicknamed "Z" (or "Zed"), was an Australian cargo and passenger steamship. She served as a troopship in both World War I and World War II...
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    SS Statendam was a steam turbine transatlantic liner. She was the third of five Holland America Line ("Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij"...
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    becoming a training ship in 1938. When the Second World War began in September 1939, the ship was briefly assigned to the Home Fleet and conducted anti-submarine...
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    SS Nordnorge was a Norwegian steamship built in 1923–24 by Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted, for the Narvik-based Norwegian shipping company Ofotens Dampskibsselskap...
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    USS Tarpon (SS-175), second United States Navy ship of this name, was a Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine. Tarpon conducted war patrols in the Pacific...
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    SS Mauna Loa was a steam-powered cargo ship of the Matson Navigation Company that was sunk in the bombing of Darwin in February 1942. She was christened...
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    Munassir Amaryllis SS America USS Anderson Andrea Doria Antilla Antilles USS Apogon SS Appomattox Aquila Aratama Maru Arctic USS Arkansas SS Arratoon Apcar...
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    SS Clan Macalister was a Clan Line heavy-lift cargo liner. She was launched in 1930 in Scotland and sunk by enemy aircraft during the Dunkirk evacuation...
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    48°12′2″N 88°29′30″W / 48.20056°N 88.49167°W / 48.20056; -88.49167 SS Emperor was a steel-hulled Canadian lake freighter in service between 1911 and...
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    ORP Grom 5 May: Maianbar 8 May: Doris 10 May: Nordnorge, Goslar 11 May: Antilla 12 May: HMCS Gate Vessel 1 14 May: HNLMS Abraham van der Hulst, Batterijschip...
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    MS Oslofjord (1937) (category Maritime incidents in 1939)
    She would have an uneventful career until 1939 were two separate incidents happened. One from 27 April 1939, where she collided with the American an pilot...
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    as artificial reef at Key West Aruba MS Antilla – Hamburg America Line cargo ship scuttled in 1940 off Aruba SS Pedernales – Lake tanker damaged by a torpedo...
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    Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed at the beginning of 1939, the ship spent most of her time training although she did participate in...
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    a collision off Massachusetts in 1956 SS Antilla – Hamburg America Line cargo ship scuttled in 1940 off Aruba SS Antilles – French cruise ship that ran...
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    SS Sirius was a Norwegian iron-hulled steamship built in Germany in 1885. Sirius spent over 55 years sailing with cargo, regular passengers and tourists...
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    Segovia, America, President Roosevelt, and President Jefferson. (see ref #4) SS Liberty Glo was a Hog Islander built at the end of World War I, but survived...
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