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List of shipwrecks: 3 June 1940 Ship State Description Edvard Nissen United Kingdom: World War II: Operation Dynamo: The cargo ship was sunk as a blockship at Dunkerque, Nord, France. [1] Holland Denmark: World War II: Operation Dynamo: The cargo ship was sunk in a collision off Dunkerque, where she was scheduled to be sunk as a blockship.
The list of shipwrecks in 1940 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The Armistice of 22 June 1940 was signed at 6:36 p.m. A German occupation zone was established in the north and west of France with the remainder left "free" to be governed by the French. The Germans entered La Rochelle, but not before all the seaport's naval facilities were blown up. [44]
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A World War II-era steamship that sank along with its captain in a strong storm in 1940 has been found at the bottom of Lake Superior after a 10-year search.
The auxiliary ship Olterra was a 5,000 ton Italian tanker scuttled by her own crew at Algeciras in the Bay of Gibraltar on 10 June 1940, after the entry of Italy in World War II. She was recovered in 1942 by a special unit of the Decima Flottiglia MAS to be used as an undercover base for manned torpedoes in order to attack Allied shipping at ...
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She was accepted into service on 30 December 1939. At 13.13 hours on 6 June 1940, the Carinthia, on a northern patrol, was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland west of Galway Bay, in coordinates by the German submarine U-46. The badly damaged ship remained afloat for 36 hours before she sank during the evening of 7 June.