An item dated Geneva 27 July referred to a French radio broadcast that the French transport Meknes was sunk according to British and German sources. The French admiralty announced that the British cabinet supplied none details about her departure and destination.(1)
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1. R. Jordan. The world’s merchant fleets 1939. Jordan claimed that the Meknès was torpedoed by the E-boat S27 and sunk costing the lives of 383 men, the other 898 men on board survived the fatal attack. Property of the Companie Générale Transatlantique, Paris.Built in 1913 with a gross register tonnage of 6.127 tons, a deadweight of 2.270 tons and as dimensions 413.8 x 51’2” x 20’8” and a speed of 13,0 knots.
