An item reported that on the 14th survivors of the Swedish steamship Dalaro arrived in a Irish port. The 29 men were saved by the Belgian trawler Jean de Waele after 17 hours wandering with a lifeboat. She was torpedoed and afterwards shot by a German submarine and sunk in the evening of the 12th on the Atlantic two hours after being torpedoed.(1)
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1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. The Dalarö was torpedoed by the German U 53. Built in 1911 as the Vard, renamed 1915 Siljan and in 1930 Dalarö. Wit a gross register tonnage of 3.927 tons and a deadweight of 6.260 tons and as dimensions 347.2 x 50’9”x 21’7” and she had a speed of 8.5 knots. Of the Rederi-A/B Rex with a black painted funnel with a white band and within was the blue coloured emblem.
Note
1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. The Dalarö was torpedoed by the German U 53. Built in 1911 as the Vard, renamed 1915 Siljan and in 1930 Dalarö. Wit a gross register tonnage of 3.927 tons and a deadweight of 6.260 tons and as dimensions 347.2 x 50’9”x 21’7” and she had a speed of 8.5 knots. Of the Rederi-A/B Rex with a black painted funnel with a white band and within was the blue coloured emblem.
