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found 15 bags of top secret mail for the British Far East Command, including a large quantity of decoding tables, Fleet orders, gunnery instructions, and Naval Intelligence reports. The most significant find was a small green bag found in the chart room near the bridge. Marked "Highly Confidential"
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set a time limit of three hours in which 31 British and 56 Chinese crewmen, three passengers, their possessions, all the frozen meat and food and the ship's papers and bags of mail were transferred. He was concerned as another ship observing the two stationary vessels would quickly guess what was
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42, which took her as far as Freetown. She then sailed unescorted to Durban, where she was in port from 25 to 29 October. Her cargo included crated aircraft, motor cars, spare parts, liquor, cigarettes, bagged mail, and food including frozen meat, bound for
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was in the worst condition he had ever seen; the close-range shelling had destroyed virtually every structure above the hull, and nothing was left undamaged. Six crew members had been killed and 12 wounded. Six of the wounded were at once transferred to
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Blue Funnel Line lost 16 ships in the First World War. Thereafter the company replaced its fleet, mainly with a class of 11 new steamships of about 460 ft (140 m)
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at once responded by transmitting a distress signal, but managed to send only "RRR – Automedon – 0416N" ("RRR" meant "under attack by armed raider") before
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and gave her a speed of 14.5 knots (27 km/h). Her holds had refrigerated space for 111,000 cubic feet (3,143 m) of cargo.
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Paul Kamenz and six of his crew to take charge of the ship and take the captured material to the German representatives in Japan.
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After passenger Mrs. Violet Ferguson asked that her tea-set be rescued, the strongroom was discovered. A thorough search of
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was judged too badly damaged to tow, so at 1507 hrs she was sunk by scuttling charges. Her survivors eventually reached
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and equipped with holes to help it to sink if it had to be thrown overboard, the bag contained an envelope addressed to
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Mrs. Ferguson's Tea-Set, Japan and the Second World War: The Global Consequences Following Germany's Sinking of the SS
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mostly sailed unescorted. When the war began in September 1939 she was en route from Britain to Australia via the
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on 4 December 1921 and completed her in March 1922. Like most members of the class she was powered by two
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on 27 April 1943. Japan only ever presented three such swords to foreigners, the others being to
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Captain Rogge realised the importance of the intelligence material he had captured from
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launched in 1949 and scrapped in 1972. The third was a motor ship launched in 1948 as
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fired a final salvo which hit the ship, killing the would-be gunner and stopping
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as one of a class of 11 ships to replace many of Blue Funnel's losses in the
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Blue Funnel ordered members of the new class from five different shipyards.
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then opened fire from a range of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), four
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Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet: The Deadliest Ships of World War II
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was still steaming full ahead and a crewman tried to reach the
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s bridge, killing everyone present except her helmsman,
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left Liverpool for Australia, but this time sailed via
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Ships built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
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about 250 nautical miles (460 km) northwest of
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Sacrifice of Singapore: Churchill's Biggest Blunder
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Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust 1144:. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust 1121: 1077:. Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust 953:happening and send a radio message before 522:A converted German auxiliary cruiser and 69:Learn how and when to remove this message 1481:The Cruise of the German Raider Atlantis 1273: 1271: 1269: 32:This article includes a list of general 1510:"How one merchant ship doomed a colony" 1340:"How one merchant ship doomed a colony" 1036: 704:GBZR, and she was fitted with wireless 1380: 1368: 1356: 1015:, Captain Rogge was awarded an ornate 908:boarding party when they came aboard. 857:amidships. The first shells destroyed 616:, all launched between 1920 and 1923. 82: 1307: 1132: 1130: 965:aboard the captured Norwegian tanker 643:Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company 596:A new class of Blue Funnel Line ships 94: 7: 1103:. Caledonian Maritime Research Trust 548:. Their capture may have influenced 1984:Maritime incidents in November 1940 511:. She was launched in 1921 on the 401:26 ft 2 in (7.98 m) 38:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 1338:Cortazzi, Hugh (7 January 2007). 880:gun on her stern to return fire. 465:111,000 cubic feet (3,143 m) 1994:Steamships of the United Kingdom 1954: 1949: 1937: 1929: 275: 268: 261: 254: 239: 232: 225: 218: 96: 23: 1262:– via Plimsoll Ship Data. 1234:– via Plimsoll Ship Data. 811:German auxiliary cruiser  801:German auxiliary cruiser  592:in 1975 and scrapped in 1977. 1: 2009:Ships of the Blue Funnel Line 1439:Ships of the Blue Funnel Line 1245:"Steamers & Motorships". 1217:"Steamers & Motorships". 980:, captured earlier, ordering 700:KNQG were superseded by the 385:459.4 ft (140.0 m) 544:documents addressed to the 2025: 1284:Port Arrivals / Departures 393:58.4 ft (17.8 m) 1924: 1479:Slavic, Joseph P (2003). 663:, both launched in 1921. 604:, 58 ft (18 m) 552:'s decision to enter the 457:14.5 knots (27 km/h) 409:32.6 ft (9.9 m) 327: 89: 85: 1397:Arnold, Michael (2011). 1286:. 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