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Breaking the chain (or novus actus interveniens, literally new intervening act) refers in English law to the idea that causal connections are deemed to finish. Even if the defendant can be shown to have acted negligently, there will be no liability if some new intervening act breaks the chain of causation between that negligence and the loss or damage sustained by the claimant.
SS Oropesa – 1894 ship that served as an armed merchant cruiser during World War I before being sunk in 1917. SS Oropesa – 1919 ocean liner that served during World War II before she was sunk in 1941. SS Oropesa – A ship transferred from Shaw, Savill & Albion Line to PSNC and renamed Oropesa in 1968.
SS Oropesa (1919) 1919 Torpedoed and sunk by U-96, January 16, 1941. SS Oropesa: SS Orsova: 1908 Scrapped in 1936 S.S. Orsova being towed. SS Orsova: 1953 Scrapped in 1974 – Taiwan: Orsova in the year 1966: MS Oslofjord: 1938 Struck a mine and sank in 1941 M/S Oslofjord in the year 1938: HMS Otranto: 1909
The Parador de Oropesa, also known as Virrey de Toledo, is a four-star Parador hotel located in the town of Oropesa, in the province of Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It was converted over a number of years from two of the buildings forming the compound of the Castillo de Oropesa (Oropesa Castle).
Dandolo spent the remainder of the war in the Mediterranean damaging a neutral French tanker on 4 November 1941, sinking the neutral Spanish freighter Castillo Oropesa on 8 November 1941, and damaging the cruiser HMS Cleopatra on 16 July 1943. Dandolo sailed to the United States after the Italian armistice, and was scrapped in 1948. [4]
List of shipwrecks: 1 February 1943 Ship State Description USS De Haven United States Navy World War II: Operation Ke: The Fletcher-class destroyer was bombed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean two nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east of Savo Island, Solomon Islands with the loss of 167 of her 329 crew.
SS Oropesa was a British steam turbine ocean liner of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company (PSNC). She was built on Merseyside in 1920 and operated between Liverpool and South America. In 1941 the German submarine U-96 sank her in the Western Approaches , killing 106 people aboard.
The North Atlantic battle surrounding it in May 1943 is regarded as the turning point of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. The battle ebbed and flowed over a period of a week, and involved more than 50 Allied ships and their escorts, and over 30 U-boats .