Merchant Navy
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On April 12, 1943, the Dutch steam merchant ship Ulysses was sunk by German submarine U-563 while part of convoy HX-232 in the North Atlantic. The attack occurred between 04:38 and 04:46 hours, approximately 550 miles east-southeast of Cape Farewell, Greenland. U-563 fired five torpedoes, resulting in the sinking of Ulysses and another ship, Pacific
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Even though Ireland was a neutral country during WWII it didn’t escape the war completely unscathed.It was especially it’s mercantile marine which was affected by the German Navy. Admiral Karl Dönitz had issued a standing order to U-boats on 4 September 1940, which defined belligerent, neutral and friendly powers. Neutral included “Ireland in particular”. The
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The MV Kerloguehas become the exemplar of neutral Irish ships during World War II. She was very small. She was attacked by both sides and rescued people from both sides. She was almost sunk by a German mine and was attacked by the Royal Air Force, being left for dead. She rescued the Wild Rose of
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The SS Tjisalak was a 5,787-ton Dutch freighter with passenger accommodation built in 1917 for the Java-China-Japan Line and used by the Allies during World War II to transport supplies across the Indian Ocean between Australia and Ceylon. On 26 March 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-8 while traveling un-escorted.
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