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22)WAKAMA (SCUTTLED)




Photo. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wakama.jpg


Built: 1921   
Tonnage: 3,771 / 6,550 dwt.
Length 369,7 ft.
Beam 50,10 ft.
Draught 22,8 ft.
Cargo: 50 000 bags of coffee, 30 000 bales of linseed, nickel, 4 tons of tobacco, crystal quartz, 20 000 cans of vegetable oil, hides, cereals, cotton, mineral oil and iron ore.   
Spotted by HMS Dorsetshire's aircraft while patrolling the south Atlantic off Rio de Janeiro coast with HMS Hawkins. Scuttled 12 FEB 40 by own crew to avoid capture on position 22º 35’S 41º 39’W.   
0 Dead 

46 Survivors taken as POW. Prisoners and wounded were disembarked at Capetown and liberated from close custody. 



Wakama seen moored at Rio de Janeiro harbor prior her attempt to escape British Navy



HMS Hawkins. Photo Wikipedia 

HMS Dorsetshire seen at Sidney harbor. Photo Wikipedia


 

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