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captain queeg

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1. Not long before VE Day there were a couple sinkings of German ships loaded with mostly civilians

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Dec 18, 2023, 12:52 PM

Dec 2023

Pretty sure one was a hospital ship and the other a requisitioned liner, both evacuating Germans ahead of the advancing red army. . Sunk by RAF fighter-bombers, I suppose that would have been in the Baltic. I believe they were the two of the largest loss of life ever for a ship sinking.

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On December 15, 1944, the Japanese prisoner of war transport ship "Oryoku Maru" was sunk in Subic Bay. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP

Not long before VE Day there were a couple sinkings of German ships loaded with mostly civilians captain queeg Dec 2023 #1

Yes, I vaguely recall that. I'd have to look it up at Wikipedia. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 #2