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Florian

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1940 Florian Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Hull for New York in ballast with a total complement of 41 Florian sailed from Oban on 18 January 1941 & was not heard from again. It was thought she was sunk on 20 January 1941 by German submarine U-94 (Herbert Kuppisch) who reported sinking a boat by torpedo SW of Iceland. Master Laurence Robert Mann. All 41 hands were lost.

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