dispersed on 29 September. On 23 January 1942, Empire Amethyst picked up five survivors from the Norwegian SS Innerøy, which had been torpedoed and sunk by...
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SS Noronic was a Canadian passenger ship that was destroyed by fire in Toronto Harbour in September 1949 with the loss of at least 118 lives.: 152 : 179 ...
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Argentino SS El Occidente SS Empire Ability (see SS Uhenfels) SS Empire Adventure SS Empire Airman (see SMS Teodo) SS Empire Amethyst SS Empire Arnold SS Empire...
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early twentieth centuries. It built engines for many ships including SS Empire Amethyst. In 1927, the company began manufacturing Brown Boveri designed turbo-alternators...
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coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) See also List of shipwrecks of Africa. "SS Park Victory (+1947)". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved July 5, 2023. "Arendskerk (Dutch...
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Patria disaster (redirect from SS Pacific (1880))
paramilitary organization Haganah of a French-built ocean liner, the 11,885-ton SS Patria, in the port of Haifa. Patria was about to depart with about 1,800...
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The SS David H. Atwater was a United States Merchant Marine coastal steamer which was sunk on 2 April 1942 by gunfire from German submarine U-552, commanded...
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Empire Conyngham was a 1,408 GRT cargo ship that was built as Marie in 1899 by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany for German owners. A sale in 1923 saw her renamed...
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In 1940, she was transferred to the Ministry of Supply (MoS) and renamed Empire Eagle, passing later that year to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT)....
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43.696683; -86.515900 SS Novadoc was one of three Great Lakes freighters lost in the Armistice Day Storm of 11 November 1940. SS William B. Davock and...
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was purchased by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941 and renamed Empire Flamingo. She served until June 1944 when she was sunk as a blockship at...
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HMS Jervis Bay (redirect from SS Jervis Bay)
According to some sources[who?], further time was bought by the freighter SS Beaverford, which engaged Admiral Scheer for over four hours. However, the...
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USS Cochino (redirect from SS-345)
USS Cochino (SS-345) was a Balao-class submarine in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1949. She sank after a battery explosion off Norway...
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Empire Airman – torpedoed and sunk by U-boat about 350 miles W. of Malin Head while en route Wabana, NFL – Cardiff, 21 September 1940 Empire Amethyst...
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In 1940 she was sold to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Bison. The ship was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-124 on 1 November...
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USS Mackerel (SS-204), the lead ship of her class of submarines, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for the mackerel. Mackerel and her...
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SS Europa, later SS Liberté IMO 5607332, was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched...
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25 April 2011. "CONVOY QP 10". Warsailors. Retrieved 25 April 2011. "SS Empire Cowper (+1942)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 25 April 2011. "Ship Index A-F"...
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February 2017. "SS Chaksang (II) [+1949]". Wrecksite. Retrieved 11 February 2017. Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships. London, New...
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requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) in 1941 and renamed Empire Bond. In 1946 she was sold and renamed Prenton. Following a grounding in...
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SS Katowice, originally named SS Vendemiare, was a 1925-built, 82-metre (269 ft)-long Polish merchant steamship. It was owned by Polish Ocean Lines and...
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was repaired, passed to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Derwent. She was sold into merchant service in 1946 and renamed Swan Point...
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SS Prinses Astrid was a Belgian cross-Channel ferry struck a naval mine 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off the coast of Dunkirk, France and sank with the loss...
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S.S. Tobruk – w konwojach śmierci (SS Tobruk – in the convoys of death) by Jan Kazimierz Sawicki. Mitchell, W H, and Sawyer, L A (1995). The Empire Ships...
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the destroyer HMS Teazer and frigate Amethyst used in the 1955 film Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst. Achilles had been sold to the newly...
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Reports". The Times. No. 43295. London. 21 March 1923. col D, p. 19. "SS Empire Dorado (+1941)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 29 June 2011. "Convoy HX 59". Warsailors...
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SS Anna C. Minch was a cargo carrier which foundered, broke in two, and sank in Lake Michigan during the Armistice Day Blizzard on 11 November 1940. The...
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SS El Occidente was a cargo ship for the Morgan Line, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company. During World War I, she was known as USAT El Occidente...
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SS Patria was an 11,885 GRT French ocean liner built in 1913 for Compagnie française de Navigation à vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Cie (Fabre Line), for whom...
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her escort, the corvette Hollyhock, the oil tanker SS British Sergeant and the Norwegian ship SS Norviken of 2,924 GRT. Hermes sank at coordinates 7°35′28...
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