SS Empire Bunting
SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1919. She saw service between the wars under the US flag and was transferred to the UK Ministry of War Transport in the Second World War. She made a number of cross-Atlantic voyages, often sailing in convoys. She ended her career by being sunk as a blockship on the Normandy coast, supporting the allied landings there in 1944.
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SS Empire Bunting
SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1919. She saw service between the wars under the US flag and was transferred to the UK Ministry of War Transport in the Second World War. She made a number of cross-Atlantic voyages, often sailing in convoys. She ended her career by being sunk as a blockship on the Normandy coast, supporting the allied landings there in 1944.
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SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 ...... allied landings there in 1944.
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1919-06-28
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*Re-floated and scrapped in 1947
*Sunk as ablockshipon 9 June 1944
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Location of the sinking of Empire Bunting.
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SS Empire Bunting was a 6,318 ...... allied landings there in 1944.
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SS Empire Bunting
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*Eelbeck (1919–41)
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*Empire Bunting (1941–47)
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