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City of Singapore

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1922 City of Singapore Ellerman Lines Ltd.

Fate

The steamship City of Singapore was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-515 (Werner Henke), off the West African coast, on May 1st, 1943. The ship was in convoy TS-37 on a voyage from Calcutta to Liverpool, with a cargo of pig iron, jute and general cargo. Master Alfred George Freeman.

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