THORSHEIMER

1935 Built as motor tanker THORSHEIMER by Deutsche Werft AG, Betrieb Finkenwärder, Hamburg, Germany for Bryde & Dahls Hvalfangerselskap A/S (A/S Thor Dahl), Sandefjord. Launched on 14/09-1935, completed in November. 1940 In May, on route from Curacao to Gibraltar and ended in La Spezia. She departed from Gibraltar on 16/05-1940 heading for La Spezia. On arrival La Spezia she was seized by the Italian Government on 10/06-1940, and the crew members taken as prisoner. The crew was later sent back to Norway, and the ship handed over to the Germans later on. 1943 Torpedoed and shelled by the British submarine UMBRA abt. 50 miles south-west of Marsala, Sicily in the Mediterranean, after she was taken into German service. Later, on 21/02-1943, bombed by British aircrafts, and sunk 20 miles south-west of the island Marettimo, Italy

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