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Tuesday, 21 July 2026

German blockade runner Elsa Essberger outward bound in 1942

Transport Number R. Name ship Elsa Essberger. Company John T. Essberger, Hamburg, Germany. Date departure 6 November 1942. Harbour which was left Bordeaux, France. Destination Far East. Returned at Bordeaux with bomb damage. Part of 2. Action “Pfastermundkoch”.

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Bundesarchiv RM 7/1419 Ausarbeitung "Wirtschaftsfahrten im Zweiten Weltkrieg" (Zusammenstellung der Fahrten von Blockadebrechern nach Ostasien, 1941-1945). 

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