MV Abosso
MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West Africa. In the Second World War she was a troop ship, running between the United Kingdom, West Africa, and South Africa. Abosso was built in 1935 and sunk by German submarine U-575 in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship, SS Abosso, which had been built in 1912 and sunk by the submarine U-43 in 1917.
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MV Abosso
MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West Africa. In the Second World War she was a troop ship, running between the United Kingdom, West Africa, and South Africa. Abosso was built in 1935 and sunk by German submarine U-575 in 1942, killing 362 of the 393 people aboard. She carried the same name as an earlier Elder Dempster ship, SS Abosso, which had been built in 1912 and sunk by the submarine U-43 in 1917.
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Die Abosso (II) war ein 1935 i ...... glieder kamen dabei ums Leben.
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MV Abosso was a passenger, mai ...... by the submarine U-43 in 1917.
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1942-10-29
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1935-09-08
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1.4045184e+2
maiden voyage
1935-10-16
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ship beam (μ)
1.987296e+1
ship launched
1935-06-19
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Torpedoed and sunk 29 October 1942
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39,833,328
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728,173,097
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Approximate position of Abossos wreck in the North Atlantic
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Ship armament
* 1 × QF 4 inch gun
*2 × Oerli ...... ket launchers
*4 × PAC rockets
Ship capacity
*251 1st class
*74 2nd class
*332 3rd class
Ship crew
*182, plus in wartime
*20 DEMS gunners
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Ship identification
*UK official number 165246
*call sign MKKS
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Ship propulsion
Diesel engines, twin screw
Ship registry
Ship sensors
*wireless direction finding;
*echo sounding device
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*tonnage under deck 7,569
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Ship type
passenger liner
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48.3 -28.5
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Die Abosso (II) war ein 1935 i ...... glieder kamen dabei ums Leben.
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MV Abosso was a passenger, mai ...... by the submarine U-43 in 1917.
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Abosso (Schiff, 1935)
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MV Abosso
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Abosso
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