Spichern was a motor tanker that was built in Denmark for Norwegian owners and launched in 1935 as Krossfonn. In 1940 the German navy captured her, renamed...
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Operation Rheinübung (category Articles containing German-language text)
26 May, with just 160 tons of fuel left, she rendezvoused with the tanker Spichern and refuelled. On 27 May, she developed engine trouble, which worsened...
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Azores but no ships were found. She was refueled several times by the tanker Spichern. Upon learning that the British Force H had sortied from Gibraltar...
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to slip away. On 26 May, Prinz Eugen rendezvoused with the supply ship Spichern to refill her nearly empty fuel tanks. She had by then only 160 tons fuel...
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renamed Spichern. Sold twice post-war and renamed Ringfjell in 1949 and Ringsaker in 1961. Converted to ore carrier in 1955. Scrapped in Bremen, Germany in...
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German submarine U-123 was a Type IXB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that operated during World War II. After that conflict, she became the French...
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"Corbis (Motor tanker)". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 4 December 2009. Helgason, Guðmundur. "Boris (Steam merchant)". German U-boats of WWII...
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alone severely disrupted U-boat operations in the far oceans. On 24 July, U-tanker U-459 was destroyed two days out of Bordeaux. On 30 July, three U-boats...
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She was one of a class of 20 similar tankers built for Anglo-Saxon. In 1944, Daronia survived being hit by two German torpedoes during World War II. Shell...
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HMCS Alberni (category Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II)
Orillia was tasked with taking one torpedoed tanker in tow back to harbour. Alberni and Skeena damaged the German submarine U-85 with depth charges. On 10...
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The two Romanian warships captured 77 assorted German vessels abandoned in the city's port (barges, tankers, tugs, floating cranes, motorboats). In 1924...
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June 1944, Flier attacked a Japanese convoy of 11 ships — cargo ships and tankers — guarded by at least six escorts. The alert behavior of the escorts during...
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List of shipwrecks in August 1944 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Ship Index. Retrieved 22 July 2012. "Passat tanker 1925-1944". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 March 2014. "German coastal minesweeper type R-41". Warshipsww2...
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29 September. The German Admiral Karl Dönitz visited Giuseppe Finzi on 30 September to welcome Regia Marina sailors to the German base. The third patrol...
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