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Re: ss moresby(shanghai)
Posted by: David H ()
Date: August 07, 2004 12:32PM

From Tennent's "British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats 1914-1918":

MORESBY
owner: Moller and Company, Shanghai
ex-Jacob Christiansen
1763 tons built 1881
26.11.1916 torpedoed and sunk in the Meidterranean 120 miles NW by N from Alexandria in position 32.26N 28.38E by the submarine U-39 whilst on a voyage from Saigon to Dunkirk with a cargo of rice. 33 lost.

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I would suggest that the CWGC is indicating the name of the ship by placing it in inverted commas, to seperate it from the port of registration - Shanghai - which it has put in brackets

David

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Subject Written By Posted
ss moresby(shanghai) nigel 08/07/2004 09:07AM
Re: ss moresby(shanghai) Rene 08/07/2004 12:15PM
Re: ss moresby(shanghai) David H 08/07/2004 12:32PM
Re: ss moresby(shanghai) JP 08/10/2004 10:15AM
Re: ss moresby(shanghai) Dänemark 08/07/2004 05:50PM
thanks nigel 08/10/2004 05:18AM


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