Thielbek was a 2,815 GRT cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1940, sunk in an air raid in 1945, refloated in 1949 and repaired, and was in service...
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A number of steamships have carried the name Thielbek, including: SS Thielbek (1926) SS Thielbek (1940) This article includes a list of ships with the...
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Deutschland, the freighter Thielbek, and the motor launch Athen [de]. Since the steering motors were out of use in Thielbek and the turbines were out of...
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aboard survived. A fourth British air attack that day sank the SS Cap Arcona and the Thielbek, with great loss of life. In 1949, the wreck was raised and...
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avoiding the 'wolfpack'. On 19 June 1940, Convoy HG-34 was attacked. U-48 sank SS Baron Loudoun (three died), SS British Monarch (all 40 on board died)...
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squadrons attacked the luxury liners SS Deutschland and the SS Cap Arcona and two smaller ships SS Athen and SS Thielbek moored off Neustadt in Lübeck Bay...
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Belgian cyclist. He was one of the victims of the bombing of the SS Cap Arcona and SS Thielbek by the RAF in May 1945. He was one of the prisoners that were...
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on board the prison ship Thielbek that was part of a flotilla of German prison boats in the Bay of Lübeck alongside the SS Cap Arcona. All prisoners...
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MV Wilhelm Gustloff (redirect from S.S. Wilhelm Gustloff)
survivors out of 5,000–7,000 passengers and crew. SS Cap Arcona MV Awa Maru Iosif Stalin Deutschland Thielbek Lancastria RMS Lusitania Montevideo Maru List...
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passenger liners Deutschland and Cap Arcona, and two large steamers, SS Thielbek and Athen. The prisoners were in the ships' hold for several days with...
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attack on Convoy SC 7. She damaged SS Blairspey and sank SS Creekirk on 18 October. The next day she sank SS Assyrian and SS Soesterberg. While carrying out...
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from the 2nd Tactical Air Force attack the passenger liners Cap Arcona, Thielbek, Athen, and Deutschland moored in the Bay of Lübeck (Baltic Sea). Hundreds...
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List of friendly fire incidents (section 1940)
friendly-fire incident in history". On 3 May, the three ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek, and the SS Deutschland in Lübeck Harbour were sunk in four separate, but synchronized...
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History.com. A&E Television Networks. Retrieved 10 September 2020. "USS Bowfin (SS-287) – Patrol 6" Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. USS Bowfin Submarine...
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SS Hebrides was a passenger and cargo ship which operated in the Western Isles of Scotland. Built in 1898 for John MacCallum, she became part of the fleet...
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Chronology of 1940". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 30 May 2019. "France". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 5 April 2019. "1940: Key Dates"....
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197 squadrons attacked the passenger liners SS Cap Arcona and SS Deutschland and the freighter SS Thielbek, which were believed to be used by the Germans...
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German submarine U-552 (category U-boats commissioned in 1940)
Hamburg as yard number 528, launched on 14 September 1940, and went into service on 4 December 1940. U-552 was nicknamed the Roter Teufel ("Red Devil")...
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ISSN 0043-0374. Freivogel, Zvonimir & Rastelli, Achille (2015). Adriatic Naval War 1940-1945. Zagreb: Despot Infinitus. ISBN 978-953-7892-44-9. Friedman, Norman...
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of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships: the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek – which, unknown to them, were packed with concentration-camp...
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she was leaving Baltimore on her way to England, came across Matson liner SS Buckeye State with fire raging in her fire room. Hoses were run from the freighter...
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as a traitor. May 3 – WWII: The prison ships Cap Arcona (5,000 dead), Thielbek (2,750 dead) and Deutschland (all survive) are sunk by the British Royal...
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May 1940, she was ordered recommissioned for conversion to a seaplane tender. Accordingly, she was recommissioned, in ordinary, on 24 June 1940 and moved...
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Heligoland) and then Wilhelmshaven, the boat left Helgoland on 27 February 1940 and arrived at Wilhelmshaven on 4 April. Three days later, U-52 began her...
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liner SS Athenia (1922) on 3 September 1939, under the command of Fritz-Julius Lemp. She was retired from front-line service in September 1940 after undertaking...
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Hawker Typhoon (category Aircraft first flown in 1940)
770 gliders sent across the river. On 3 May 1945, the Cap Arcona, the SS Thielbek, and the Deutschland, large passenger ships in peacetime now in military...
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USS Sangamon (CVE-26) (redirect from SS Esso Trenton)
22 October 1940. Renamed Sangamon and designated a fleet oiler, one of 12 Cimarron-class oilers, she was commissioned on 23 October 1940. After service...
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from the German Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory to assist the British steamer SS Chingpin that had run aground further south on the Shandong Peninsula. Attempts...
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weeks at sea. On 1 January 1940 U-37 was reassigned to the 2nd U-boat Flotilla based at Wilhelmshaven. On 28 January 1940 the U-boat departed for the...
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convoys SC 7 and HX 79. She sank SS Beatus, SS Convallaria and SS Gunborg from SC 7 on 18 October and SS Ruperra and SS Janus from HX 79 on 19 October and...
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