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Wednesday, 14 October 2026

German blockade runner Vossiap homeward bound in 1941-1942

Transport Number -. Name ship Vossiap (ex-Osorno). Company Hapag= Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg, Germany. Date departure 16 December 1941. Harbour which was left -. Date arrival 21 March 1942. Harbour of arrival Bordeaux, France. Deadweight 9,098 tons.(1)

Note

1. Can’t find another reference when she was renamed Vossiap. Launched by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 517 on 21 December 1938, commissioned on 21 December 1938 and scuttled in the Gironde when German forces retreated from Bordeaux on 25 August 1944.

Source

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

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