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side. As No. 3 boat was being lowered, one of its falls was let go and all of the boat's occupants were thrown into the water. No. 3 boat seems to have been carrying most of the Dutch submariners. No. 5 boat was launched successfully and managed to rescue four of the Dutch from the water. No. 9 boat
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and empty cans to bale water out of her. At about 01:30 (local time) on 30 October they lost contact with the other lifeboats. Overnight the boat's crew rowed to keep the boat headed into the sea; at daybreak they raised her mast and hoisted a sail. At about 16:00 (local time) they deployed the
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Among the few survivors were Lieutenant Coumou and three of his fellow-submariners. The Dutch Navy was unable to replace its 30 lost men, so the U-class submarine at Barrow was launched not for the Dutch Navy but as the
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settled in the water, she temporarily righted herself, her crew got her emergency generator working, and her floodlights were switched on to help the evacuation. Almost immediately after this,
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afloat and occupied. Heydemann did not try to question survivors to identify the ship, and claimed in his report that this was because the weather was poor.
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three days later. No. 5 boat's occupants were the only survivors: the other lifeboats and rafts were never found. A total of 362 people had died, including
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had 12 lifeboats. The even-numbered boats were on her port side and it is not clear whether any of them was launched. The odd-numbered boats were on her
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sailed alone and unescorted, despite having a top speed of only 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h). A commander of the Dutch submariners,
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for Elder Dempster Lines in 1935. She was launched on 19 June, completed on 8 September and began her maiden voyage on 16 October.
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s accommodation had capacity for 250 1st class, 74 2nd class, and 332 3rd class passengers arranged over three decks. She had
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overnight. At daybreak on 31 October they resumed sailing, and a few hours later sailed into sight of an Allied convoy.
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Henry Coumou, objected beforehand that this was an unreasonable risk to take, but British authorities overruled him.
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military personnel, such as the newly qualified RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilots. 21 of the victims are commemorated at
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first. The submarine then surfaced, approached the débris area, and scanned the boats with her searchlights.
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in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship,
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was also launched successfully. It was a motor boat and moved around picking up survivors from the water.
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Her military passengers included 50 or 51 Dutch conscripts, 44 newly trained pilots fresh from
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to prevent her capture by invading Japanese forces. They were travelling to take over a
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The "pig trough" was a rocket launcher invented by the engineer and novelist
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was in the Atlantic about 589 nautical miles (1,091 km) north of the
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s sinking have no grave but the sea. The Second World War part of the
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No. 5 boat was leaking badly and her crew were busy using their
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On 27 June 1939 in dense fog 22 nautical miles (41 km) off
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fired a torpedo from one of her stern torpedo tubes, which hit
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to help it to remain upright and fire its rockets vertically.
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lists those who were members of her Merchant Navy crew. The
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Boschwitz also perished. 620:, but the ship survived with only slight damage. 2246: 1405:Crew lists from ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net 1046: 2275:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II 1140: 1118: 1116: 1114: 1112: 1110: 1108: 1106: 1104: 1102: 1100: 916:North Africa. One of the convoy's escorts, the 678:, among them the German-born and Jewish author 1586: 1486: 580:was involved in a collision with the 815  2290:World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean 1685: 1303: 1278:Allen, Tony; Lettens, Jan (26 January 2011). 1128: 523:. Her navigation equipment included wireless 1624: 1342: 1277: 1273: 1271: 1269: 1267: 1265: 1097: 731:, both of which had been transferred to the 544:for carrying perishable cargo in her holds. 426:was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the 1633:, Marston & Co. 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Lucas Bruijn. Archived from 456:was built in 1935 and sunk by 1: 1480: 240:460.8 ft (140.5 m) 1629:(Seventh ed.). London: 1625:Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1942) . 1039: 1024:, 19 on the War Memorial at 988: 966:, Reginald Tate and another 7: 1587:Sources and further reading 1016:lists those who were UK or 311:14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) 10: 2306: 2260:Maritime incidents in 1939 1612:Harnack, Edwin P (1938) . 680:Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz 505:, with two eight-cylinder 251:65.2 ft (19.9 m) 2200: 2156: 1705: 1028:in Egypt, and one on the 993:The 362 people killed in 912:, the Allied invasion of 259:31.5 ft (9.6 m) 199: 27: 23: 1616:(7th ed.). 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United Kingdom
Elder Dempster Lines
United Kingdom
Liverpool
Cammell Laird
Birkenhead
official number
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GRT
NRT
p/p
NHP
bhp
Diesel engines
screw
DEMS
direction finding
echo sounding
QF 4 inch gun
Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
Marlin machine guns
Lewis guns
PAC rockets
flagship
Elder Dempster Lines
Liverpool

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