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Dubrovnik – An Italian steamship which was bombed by Luftwaffe planes, capsized and sank off Chioggia on 11 September, with the loss of about 100 people. Mohamed Ali El-Kebir – On 7 October, en route from Avonmouth to Gibraltar, the troopship was sunk by U-38 with the loss of 96 people.
St. Louis would earn eleven battle stars for her service in WWII. After the war, the ship was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and sunk in 1980 while being towed to the scrap yard. USS Helena (CL-50) moored in Pearl Harbor when the base came under attack by Japanese carrier planes. She was mistaken for a battleship and targeted by Japanese torpedo ...
11 November 1942. Sunk after being torpedoed by German submarine U-173. Lafayette (AP-53) Pier 88, Manhattan. 9 February 1942. Former French luxury liner SS Normandie and one of the largest ships in the world. Caught fire and capsized while undergoing conversion to a troop transport.
1 × 4"/50 caliber gun. 4 × 20 mm guns. Dorchester was a coastal passenger steamship requisitioned and operated by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) in January 1942 for wartime use as a troop ship allocated to United States Army requirements. The ship was operated for WSA by its agent Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (Agwilines).
The Laconia incident was a series of events surrounding the sinking of a British passenger ship in the Atlantic Ocean on 12 September 1942, during World War II, and a subsequent aerial attack on German and Italian submarines involved in rescue attempts. RMS Laconia, carrying 2,732 crew, passengers, soldiers, and prisoners of war, was torpedoed ...
Wilhelm Gustloff. Cruise ship converted into a military transport serving as evacuation ship. Germany. 30 January 1945. S-13. Soviet Union. 6,500 [3] Goya. Freighter converted into a troop transport serving as evacuation ship.
A U.S. General G. O. Squier-class troop transport Aiken Victory, a Victory ship troop ship conversion, arriving in Boston with 1,958 troops from Europe, 26 July 1945 [4] Large numbers of troopships were employed during World War II, including 220 "Limited Capacity" Liberty ship conversions, 30 Type C4 ship-based General G. O. Squier-class, a class of 84 Victory ship conversions, and a small ...
18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) Goya was a Norwegian motor freighter used as a troop transport by Nazi Germany and sunk with a massive loss of life near the end of World War II. Completed in 1940 for the Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Rederi company, the ship was named after Spanish artist Francisco Goya. Following Germany's invasion of Norway that year ...