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Similar Clydebank, Comliebank, Forresbank, Inverbank, Levernbank, Myrtlebank, Nairnbank, Olivebank and Speybank. Launched by Harland&Wolff, Govan, Scotland with yard number 686on 25 February 1926, completed on 20 April 1926, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis on 31 January 1941, brought to Bordeaux, France by a prize crew, converted into an auxiliary minelayer annex blockade runner and erroneously torpedoed by German submarine U 43 underway from Japan, Singapore and Djakarta, Dutch East Indies bound for Europe on 3 March 1941. Except or rubber and vegetable oil were crews from the German supply tanker Uckermark and raider Thor causing the death of 364 men with just one survivor. Owner Bank Line Ltd.-A. Weir&Co., Glasgow, Scotland, since 1941 DDG Hansa, since 1941 of the Kriegsmarine.
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