An item dated Montevideo, Uruguay 5th reported that a British hospital ship was fitted out to transport the wounded crewmembers of the British auxiliary cruiser Carnarvon Castle (1) in the battle with a German raider (2) who afterwards fled. Possible were there victims and was the auxiliary cruiser heavily damaged.
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1. Launched by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland with yard number 595 on 14 January 1926 for the Union-Castle Line, completed on 26 June 1926, acquired by the British Royal Navy on 8 September 1939, converted at the naval base at Simonstown, South Africa into an auxiliary cruiser, commissioned on 6 October 1939, decommissioned in December 1943, plans of converting her into an aircraft carrier not executed but instead at New York, USA into a troopship in 1944 and broken up in 1963. The battle mentioned in the news item was on 5 December 1939 with the German auxiliary cruiser Thor and she was heavily damaged with 4 dead and 27 wounded crewmembers. It seemed that for the repairs steel was used salvaged from the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.
2. Also known in the German navy as theHSK-4 and Schiff 10, but by the British Royal Navy as Raider E. In 1938 built as the merchant vessel Santa Cruz for the Oldenburg Portuguese Line (OPDR) by the Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany in 1938, acquired by the Kriegsmarine in 1939, commissioned in March 1940 as the Thor and lost when fire broke while lying in the harbour of Yokohama, Japan on 30 November 1942.
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1. Launched by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, Ireland with yard number 595 on 14 January 1926 for the Union-Castle Line, completed on 26 June 1926, acquired by the British Royal Navy on 8 September 1939, converted at the naval base at Simonstown, South Africa into an auxiliary cruiser, commissioned on 6 October 1939, decommissioned in December 1943, plans of converting her into an aircraft carrier not executed but instead at New York, USA into a troopship in 1944 and broken up in 1963. The battle mentioned in the news item was on 5 December 1939 with the German auxiliary cruiser Thor and she was heavily damaged with 4 dead and 27 wounded crewmembers. It seemed that for the repairs steel was used salvaged from the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.
2. Also known in the German navy as theHSK-4 and Schiff 10, but by the British Royal Navy as Raider E. In 1938 built as the merchant vessel Santa Cruz for the Oldenburg Portuguese Line (OPDR) by the Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany in 1938, acquired by the Kriegsmarine in 1939, commissioned in March 1940 as the Thor and lost when fire broke while lying in the harbour of Yokohama, Japan on 30 November 1942.
