Empire Blanda was a cargo ship that Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow built in 1919 as Nile. It was sold to a Yugoslavian company in 1930 and renamed Sokol in...
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SS Nile (1850), sank off Godrevy Head, Cornwall in 1854 SS Nile (1919), later SS Empire Blanda, torpedoed in 1941 This article includes a list of ships with the same...
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Requisitioned in 1940, to MoWT as Empire Blanda. Torpedoed on 19 February 1941 & sunk by U-69 south of Iceland. Empire Blessing was a 7,064 GRT cargo ship...
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MV Empire Bede SS Empire Bell SS Empire Bison SS Empire Blanda (*) SS Empire Bowman SS Empire Breeze SS Empire Brigade SS Empire Broadsword SS Empire Brutus...
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was sold in Barbados in 1811. SS Nile (1850), sank off Godrevy Head, Cornwall in 1854 SS Nile (1919), later SS Empire Blanda, torpedoed in 1941 HMS Nile...
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SS Politician was a cargo ship that ran aground off the coast of the Hebridean island of Eriskay in 1941. Her cargo included 22,000 cases of scotch whisky...
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was built in 1922. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1941 and renamed Empire Arun. In 1947 she was sold and renamed Granlake. Further name changes were...
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Atlantic, 1 November 1940 Empire Blanda – lost without trace on-route Halifax, NS, to Grangemouth, on or around 9 February 1941 Empire Brigade – torpedoed and...
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boat on the 22nd – no damage was sustained. U-69's next victim was Empire Blanda, sunk on the 19th. Four days later (on the 23rd), Marslew was similarly...
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Empire Breeze was a 7,457 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1940 for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Shortly after entering service she ran aground...
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Transport (MoWT) and renamed Empire Engineer. She served until 4 February 1941 when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-123. The SS Empire Engineer was built in...
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SS Gairsoppa was a British cargo steamship that was built in 1919 and sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941. 85 of her complement were killed, and...
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Walther Hewel (category SS-Brigadeführer)
married SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein of the Waffen-SS. A few weeks later, on 12 July 1944, Fegelein's good friend, Elizabeth "Blondie" Blanda – a Red...
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Italian motor merchant SS Rosanna, built in 1937, in Zaandam, in the Netherlands. Scuttled on 9 February 1941, in the Gulf of Sidra by Italians to avoid...
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SS Manistee was an Elders & Fyffes Ltd banana boat that was launched in 1920. She was one of a numerous class of similar banana boats built for Elders...
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fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing. p. 452. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "Empire Blanda". uboat.net. Retrieved 15 August 2021. "Gracia". Uboat. Retrieved 5...
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SS Black Osprey was a cargo ship for the American Diamond Lines and the British Cairn Line. She was formerly known as SS West Arrow when she was launched...
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Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. ISBN 1-85044-275-4. "SS Empire Citizen (+1941)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 April 2010. "Lloyd's Register...
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Stabler, Rich Gannon (4), Derek Carr (3), Cotton Davidson, Tom Flores, George Blanda, Jeff Hostetler (1) RB Marcus Allen (5), Clem Daniels (4), Marv Hubbard...
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SS Huntingdon was a refrigerated steam cargo liner that was built in Germany in 1920 as Münsterland. The United Kingdom took her as war reparations and...
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1926 – Jack McDuff, American singer and organist (d. 2001) 1927 – George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010) 1928 – Park Honan, American author and...
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SS Algarve was a Danish cargo steamship that was built in 1921 for DFDS. After Germany invaded Denmark in April 1940 Algarve was transferred to the UK...
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finally being refloated on 20 May. She was towed by the tugs Empire Bascobel and Empire Larch to a Tyneside shipyard for repairs, which were completed...
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the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Plumleaf and two merchant ships, SS Cornwall and SS Volo, from Egypt to Malta with relief supplies. Dainty and Ilex escorted...
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Sing! season 1 SPOP Wave! SPRING Singapore SR 88 SS Anglia (1944) SS Delphine (1921) SS Empire Adur SS Katong SSPH Primus ST Aero FanTail ST Aero MAV-1...
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November was detached in company with Pytchley to escort the merchant ship SS Adda to the Faeroe Islands. Exmoor returned on 11 November and resumed her...
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