A number of steamships have been named Leopoldville or Léopoldville: SS Léopoldville (1895), 3,386 GRT, built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough...
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SS Léopoldville was a 11,509 GRT passenger liner of the Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo. She was converted for use as a troopship in the Second World...
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the Belgian colony of Congo, before it was renamed Kinshasa in 1966 SS Léopoldville, a number of ships by this name Leopoldstadt, a District of Vienna...
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of them were lost at sea, including over 489 in the sinking of the SS Léopoldville. Nineteen of these names bear a bronze rosette next to their name,...
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François Coli which vanished on an attempted transatlantic flight in 1927 SS Léopoldville, a Belgian troop transport torpedoed outside Cherbourg in 1944 Lexington...
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English Channel to Cherbourg, France. Two transport vessels, SS Cheshire and the Belgian Leopoldville carried the 66th across the English Channel. However, only...
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People's Army is formed in French Indochina. December 24 WWII: Troopship SS Léopoldville is sunk in the English Channel by German submarine U-486. Approximately...
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Infantry Division. During the war, he witnessed the sinking of the SS Léopoldville and served in northern France and Vienna. After the war, he returned...
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counter-attack at the "Bulge" begins. : The Belgian transport ship SS Leopoldville is sunk off the coast of France. More than 800 lives, predominantly...
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"Toot Sweet Express"). On 24 December 1944, the Belgian freighter SS Léopoldville, carrying 2,237 American soldiers of the 66th Infantry Division, was...
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SS Léopoldville, passenger ship for Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, launched 13 August 1908, completed 10 November 1908, renamed SS Absini. SS Laurentic...
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Holt. pp. 251–52. ISBN 9780805074482. Allen, Tonya. "The Sinking of SS Léopoldville". uboat.net. Guðmundur Helgason. Retrieved 2021-05-10. Abbott, Karen...
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The Associated Press. October 31, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2017. "Leopoldville". Uboat.net. Retrieved December 7, 2010. Fenton, Ben (April 26, 2004)...
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Shinyo and Akitsu Maru 24 December Convoy WEP 3 - Belgian troopship SS Leopoldville is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-486 with a loss of 819...
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Part 8: HMS Pathfinder, U-21, and U-20. Part 9: The Troop Transport SS Leopoldville Part 10: A listing of the sixty-four shipwreck sites documented by...
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Cherbourg-Octeville. 49°45′N 1°34′W / 49.750°N 1.567°W / 49.750; -1.567 (SS Leopoldville (1929)) USS Miantonomah United States Navy 25 September 1944 A cargo...
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Convoyweb. Retrieved 9 January 2024. Allen, Tonya. "The Sinking of SS Léopoldville". uboat.net. Retrieved 17 January 2011. Harnack 1949, p. 412. Lloyd's...
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France aboard the transports SS Léopoldville and HMS Cheshire. The ships were five miles from Cherbourg when Léopoldville was torpedoed by a German U-boat;...
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roads. The second crisis occurred on Christmas Eve; the troopship SS Léopoldville, carrying 2,235 men of the 66th Infantry Division, was torpedoed and...
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Division and helped to break German codes. He survived the sinking of the SS Léopoldville in 1944. Senesky attended Saint Joseph's University (then Saint Joseph's...
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during World War II. He was a survivor of the sinking of the troopship SS Leopoldville off the coast of France on December 24, 1944, in which 763 soldiers...
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February 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2013. Rohwer, p. 200 "The Sinking of SS Leopoldville". uboat.net. Retrieved 14 December 2013. "HMS Brilliant (H 84)". Allied...
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Middlesbrough on the River Tees built all of the CBMC's early ships. The first, Léopoldville, was a cargo ship that was completed in January 1895. Albertville was...
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later refuted Grethe Rask — Danish physician infected in 1964 in Congo-Léopoldville (now DR Congo) or in 1972 while performing surgery; died in 1977 Robert...
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towards the end of 2012, and started recording profits from 2013. SS Burgondier Léopoldville (1897 ship) [nl] Albertville (1928 ship) [nl] BeHydro "History...
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Archerfish. December 24, 1944: Captain Charles Limbor went down with the Léopoldville after it was torpedoed and sank by U-486 5 miles from Cherbourg. April...
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USS LST-749 22 Dec: USS LST-563 24 Dec: Alan-A-Dale, HMCS Clayoquot, Léopoldville 26 Dec: HMS Capel, Kiyoshimo, U-2342, Benjamin Ide Wheeler 27 Dec: U-877...
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SS Empire Javelin was an Infantry Landing Ship designated an "LSI (Large)" in service with the UK in the latter part of World War II. Launched on 25 October...
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SS John Burke (MC hull number 609) was an American Liberty Ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 type 'EC2-S-C1' ships that carried all kinds...
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origins in the emergence of one specific strain – HIV-1 subgroup M – in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo (now Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the...
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