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SHIPS HIT NETHERLANDS 30 - DUTCH SHIPS LOST/DAMAGED/CAPTURED

25)TELA (RAIDER THOR)




Photo by Roel Zwama www.surf.to/shiplover



Built: 1911


Tonnage: 3,766 / 6,290 tons


Cargo: 2,555 tons of millet, 2,507 tons of corn and 489 tons of wheat.


Route: Buenos Aires - UK


Sunk 19 JUL 40 By Raider Thor on pos 14º 00’S 33º 00’W


0 Dead


33 POW


SS Tela en route to the UK, was intercepted on 17th July 1940. Thor fired a shot across her bow and TELA stopped without sending distress signals. The crew of 33 abandoned ship and were taken aboard Thor and TELA was subsequently sunk by demolition charges. 


 

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