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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 .
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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 ...
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]
RMS Lancastria (1924–1940) HMT Lancastria (1940) Namesake: Tyrrhenia in central Italy (1920–1924) Lancashire in England (1924–1940) Owner: Anchor – Builder: William Beardmore and Company: Launched: 31 May 1920: Maiden voyage: 19 June 1922: Out of service: 17 June 1940: Fate: Sunk by German bombers on 17 June 1940 off St. Nazaire ...
Dalstroy – The Soviet steamer operating during the 1930s and 1940s from the port of Nakhodka to Magadan and delivering cargo and prisoners to Kolyma, exploded on July 24 (Dalstroy explosion), during the loading of ammonal in Nakhodka, due to gross safety violations. The explosion resulted in the death of 105 people, as well as significant ...