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36)CAPE HORN (Explosives)




Photo. City of Vancouver Archives CVA 447 - 2069


 


Built 1929


Tonnage: 5,643 / 9,450 tons


Cargo  Explosives and stores


Route: Birkenhead - Table Bay - Middle East


Blew up and sunk 28 MAR 42 E of Ascension Is, following fire believed caused by delayed action incendiary in cargo on pos. 08º 26"S 08º 48"W


4 Dead


119 Survivors. Some sources state that crew and twenty passengers boarded the lifeboats 


 

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