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Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships
Posted by: Ken Dunn ()
Date: October 12, 2007 07:30PM

Hi Mark,

There was indeed a German merchant ship named Köln. She was a 7,881 GRT freighter built by Schiffbau & Maschinefabrik Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack, Germany and completed in 1922. On June 26, 1940 while carrying a cargo of 9,000 tons of iron oar to Hamburg she went aground at Argosgrund south of Gefle. The next day she broke in two and sank.

Source:

Jordan, Roger. The World’s Merchant Fleets 1939 – The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999. ISBN: 1-55750-959-X. Copyright: Roger Jordan, 1999.

And

Hocking, Charles F.L.A. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During the Age of Steam – Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War Lost in Action 1824-1962 Volume I. London: Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. Copyright: Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 1969.

What is your source for the story of her sinking?

Regards,

Ken Dunn

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uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 05:48PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships paul tjader 10/12/2007 06:40PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 07:05PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Ken Dunn 10/12/2007 07:30PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 07:47PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Ken Dunn 10/12/2007 08:19PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 08:38PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Rainer 10/12/2007 09:38PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 09:52PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Bruce Dennis 10/12/2007 10:26PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/12/2007 10:39PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Ken Dunn 10/12/2007 11:22PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Rainer 10/13/2007 10:46AM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships kpp 10/18/2007 05:45PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships kpp 10/18/2007 05:47PM
Re: uboat Contact With German Merchant Ships Mark McShane 10/19/2007 12:47AM
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