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spidge · 17-04-2007, 11:53 AM

For the Seadogs: April 17th 1941. From: SeaWaves Magazine

1941 - MS Venezuela sunk by U-123 at 53N, 18W

1941 - U-141 had a collision with the German ship Ameland in Bergen & suffered damage

1941 - Escort carrier HMS Attacker laid down

1941 - U-566 commissioned

1941 - U-573 launched

1941 - Destroyer HNLMS Van Galen (ex-HMS Noble) launched

1941 - Corvette HMS Monkshood launched

1941 - German raider Atlantis sinks the Egyptian liner Zamzam and takes 220 passengers prisoner. These passengers included "Life" magazine photographer David Scherman

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,056	For the Seadogs: April 17th 1941. From: SeaWaves Magazine 1941 - MS Venezuela sunk by U-123 at 53N, 18W 1941 - U-141 had a collision with the German ship Ameland in Bergen & suffered damage 1941 - Escort carrier HMS Attacker laid down 1941 - U-566 commissioned 1941 - U-573 launched 1941 - Destroyer HNLMS Van Galen (ex-HMS Noble) launched 1941 - Corvette HMS Monkshood launched 1941 - German raider Atlantis sinks the Egyptian liner Zamzam and takes 220 passengers prisoner. These passengers included "Life" magazine photographer David Scherman __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 17-04-2007 at 11:56 AM.