In a letter dated 13 April 1942 No. 1329 to the O.K.M./1 Abteilung Skl. was the so-called ‘Etappen’-organisation of the navy described. In the attachment were the blockade runners decribed used for this purpose. Usaramo. Not loaded. Left Vigo, Spain on 22 October 1940. Arrived at Bordeaux, France on 29 October 1940. In October 1940 during transfer to West France as accommodation ship for Italian submarines seized by the navy and later in an air attack set on fire and sunk in the harbor.(1)
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1. Owner Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie, launched by Blohm&Voss on 2 October 1920, completed in 1921, disguished as Belgian steamship Cablo arrived at Vigo in September 1939, sunk at Bordeaux on 10 December 1940, refloated, sunk again in an air attack on 25 August 1944, refloated and broken up after the war.
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Bundesarchiv RM 7/223
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