Abukir
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The
British steamship Abukir was torpedoed by the German
Schnellboot S-34 outside Oostend 28.May 1940 while she was
working with evacuation of Allied soldiers from the city.
She was hit midships by a torpedo and broke in two parts.
She went down within a minute and out of the 500 soldiers,
480 perished. The wreck was found by local divers in 1969
outside Nord-Pas-De-Calais on a depth of 32 meter.
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 Picture: Abukir Originally from skovheim.org Courtesy of Pandora Last updated: May 2019 |
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