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Italian blockade runner ms Pietro Orseolo in German service 1941-1942

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. Italian ms Pietro Orseolo. Loaded with 6,888 ton Germany-cargo, 2,000 ton rubber. Left Kobe, Japan on 24 December 1941, arrived at Bordeaux, France on 23 February 1942.

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Bundesarchiv RM 7/223

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