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Monday, 20 April 2026

German blockade runner ms Elbe in 1941

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. Ms. Elbe. Loaded with circa 4,000 ton rubber. Left Dairen on 20 April 1941 and on 6 June 1941 bombed by 5 British aircraft on the Atlantic and sunk.

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Bundesarchiv RM 7/223

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