Abukir
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The
British steamer Abukir was requisitioned by Royal Navy to
support evacuating Allied soldiers from Belgium and France
after the unexpected and rapid German advance in May 1940.
While evacuating soldiers she was spotted and torpedoed by
the German Schnellboot S-34 outside
Oostend 28. May 1940. She was hit midships by one torpedo
and immediately broke in two parts and in less than a
minute. Out of the 500 soldiers on board, only twenty
survived the sinking. The broken up wreck was found by
divers in 1969 outside Nord-Pas-De-Calais on a depth of 25
to 32 meter.
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 Picture: Abukir Originally from skovheim.org Courtesy of Pandora Last updated: May 2019 |
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