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Tuesday, 6 January 2026

Dutch cargo ship Alioth 1937-1942

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk,Nteeerlands

Launched by Deutsche Werft A.G., Hamburg, Germany with yard number 188 on 23 March 1937, delivered to owner/manager Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Co's Stoomvaart-Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands on 12 May 1937 sunk after she was torpedoed and attacked with gunfire by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci underway from Birkenhead, England to Cape Town, South Africa loaded with war store part of convoy O.S.29 on 850 nautical miles of Freetown on the Atlantic Ocean on 10 June 1942. 

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