MV Daronia
MV Daronia was a 1930s British oil tanker owned by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, a British subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. She was launched in July 1938 by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn on Tyneside in England and was completed in February 1939. She was one of a class of 20 similar tankers built for Anglo-Saxon. In 1944 Daronia survived being hit by two German torpedoes, and in 1958 she survived being hit by a bomb in an air raid by the CIA. Shell withdrew Daronia from service in 1960 and she was scrapped in November of that year.
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MV Daronia
MV Daronia was a 1930s British oil tanker owned by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, a British subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. She was launched in July 1938 by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn on Tyneside in England and was completed in February 1939. She was one of a class of 20 similar tankers built for Anglo-Saxon. In 1944 Daronia survived being hit by two German torpedoes, and in 1958 she survived being hit by a bomb in an air raid by the CIA. Shell withdrew Daronia from service in 1960 and she was scrapped in November of that year.
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MV Daronia was a 1930s British ...... pped in November of that year.
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Scrapped November 1960
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732.504.889
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Balikpapan in Kalimantan, Indonesia, where a CIA bomb hit Daronia.
Position where torpedoed Daronia.
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United Kingdom
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Daronia, a genus of extinct gastropods of the family Turbinidae
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MV Daronia was a 1930s British ...... pped in November of that year.
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MV Daronia
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MV Daronia
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