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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.
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1940 Ship State Description Captain Sturt Australia: The paddle steamer sank off Kangaroo Island, South Australia. [1] Cläre Hugo Stinnes I Norway: World War II: The captured German cargo ship was sunk at Ulvik. She was refloated later in 1940 and re-entered German service. [2] Dalhousie United Kingdom
This image provided by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society shows the wreck of the bulk carrier Arlington, a merchant ship loaded with wheat that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on ...
1940 Italy: Espero – On 28 June the Italian destroyer was sunk by cruisers HMAS Sydney, HMS Orion, HMS Neptune, HMS Liverpool and HMS Gloucester in the Battle of the Espero Convoy. 50 men survived out of 255 crew and troops aboard. 205 Navy 1944 United States: USS Hull – On 18 December, in Typhoon Cobra, the US destroyer capsized and sank ...
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.
Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it, during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The Arlington left Port Arthur ...
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 ...
She was sunk by a mine off La Pallice, France, in 1940—one of the earliest passenger ship losses of the Second World War. Although not as well remembered as her larger fleetmates, the Champlain was the first modern ocean liner and embodied many design features later incorporated into the French Line's SS Normandie .