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The American Ship Germany Captured — and Lost (1939) #Shorts

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October 1939: the pocket battleship Deutschland seized the neutral US freighter City of Flint. A German prize crew took her across the Arctic to Murmansk, then down the Norwegian coast, until Norwegian sailors boarded her at Haugesund and freed the American crew.
A month earlier, the same ship had rescued 236 survivors of the torpedoed liner Athenia.

Sources: uboat.net, U.S. Naval Academy archives, FRUS (Captain Gainard's affidavit)
#ww2 #history #navalhistory #norway #1939
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