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Thursday 26 January 2017

Several German merchant ships sunk or holded according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwsblad van Friesland dated Wednesday 6 September 1939

An item reported that except for the German merchant ship Olinda of the Hamburg-Sud Amerka Linie also the German cargo ships Carl Fritzen and Bothania of the Cunard Company were sunk. Their crews were saved. The German cargo ship Christoph von Doornum was off New Foundland holded and brought to St. John.