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RE: U-63 sinking Troop ship Transylvania
Posted by: 2000 ()
Date: March 01, 2001 08:25PM

<HTML>\".......the most serious casualty was the fine troopship TRANSYLVANIA (14,315 tons), with 3000 troops for Egypt. In February the Japanese Government had offered to send 8 destroyers under a Japanese rear-admiral to co-operate with the British patrols in the Mediterranesn. Two of these Japanese destroyers, MATSU and SAKAKI, were escorting the TRANSYLVANIA; and when they were 2-1/2 miles south of cape Vado, in the Gulf of Genoa, the large liner was twice torpedoed, sinking in less than an hour with 270 of those aboard.\"

\"On June 11 the SAKAKI was damaged by a torpedo, losing 55 of her crew.\"


no mention is made of either U-boat.

The German Submarine War Gibson & Prendergast,
Constable & Co Ltd London 1931</HTML>

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U-63 sinking Troop ship Transylvania Dave 03/01/2001 05:41PM
RE: U-63 sinking Troop ship Transylvania 2000 03/01/2001 08:25PM
RE: U-63 sinking Troop ship Transylvania Michael Lowrey 03/02/2001 05:35AM


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