• 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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    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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  • 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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    paramilitary organization Haganah of a French-built ocean liner, the 11,885-ton SS Patria, in the port of Haifa, killing 267 people and injuring 172. At the...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • SS Sagaing was a twin-hatched passenger and cargo steamship that regularly plied a route connecting Liverpool, Glasgow and Rangoon in the first half of...
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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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  • 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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  • SS Tiger was a tanker that was torpedoed on 1 April 1942 off the coast of Virginia during World War II. Tiger was an American Socony-Vacuum Oil Company...
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    58°09′30″N 11°11′40″E / 58.15833°N 11.19444°E / 58.15833; 11.19444 SS Suevic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star...
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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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    Apr: Empire Cowper, USS Finch, HMS Kingston 13 Apr: El Occidente, Empire Amethyst 14 Apr: Benwood, Margaret, U-85, U-252, HMS Upholder 20 Apr: Empire Dryden...
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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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    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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  • 30.617; -77.250 (lifeboat of SS Empire Dryden) and rescued. They were landed in Bermuda on 8 May. Those lost from Empire Dryden are commemorated on the...
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    Apr: Empire Cowper, USS Finch, HMS Kingston 13 Apr: El Occidente, Empire Amethyst 14 Apr: Benwood, Margaret, U-85, U-252, HMS Upholder 20 Apr: Empire Dryden...
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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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  • The SS Gulfamerica was an American steam tanker built by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, of Sparrow's Point, Maryland and completed in March 1942. She...
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    HMS Implacable Unknown date: Empire Flamingo Other incidents 1 Jan: Queen Mary 20 Apr: HMS Amethyst (grounding), HMS Consort 26 Apr: HMS Amethyst (grounding), HMS Black...
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