SS Libau (pronounced [lɪˈbaʊ]; originally known as SS Castro) was a merchant steam ship. In 1916 she was disguised with the identity of a Norwegian vessel...
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Libau may refer to: Libau, Manitoba, a community in Canada Libau, the German name for Liepāja, Latvia SS Libau, a ship renamed Aud, which attempted to...
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would take it at face value. On 9 April, the German Navy dispatched the SS Libau for County Kerry, disguised as the Norwegian ship Aud. It was loaded with...
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The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (German: 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division primarily...
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Ambedkar University Delhi American University in Dubai SS Aud, a 1907 Norwegian merchant ship SS Libau, a German merchant ship which was disguised as the...
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Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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arms drop case Polish arms sales to Republican Spain Santorini affair SS Libau SS John Grafton Small Arms Survey Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense United States...
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Gerry McGeough Whitey Bulger Martin Ferris Patrick Nee Howth gun-running SS Libau War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History Volume 2 by Robert B. Asprey...
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Easter Rising. However the shipment was lost when the ship, the SS Libau, posing as the SS Aud was intercepted and scuttled by her captain off Fenit, County...
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Britain simultaneous with the Rising. These guns were supplied, in the SS Libau; Devoy was blamed by the leaders of the Rising for failing to follow instructions...
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rifles in Ireland by relief ship on Good Friday. The captured English ship SS Libau would be dispatched under the guise of Norwegian vessel Aud to land the...
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Johnston – original: Tralee-owned emigrant ship, mid-19th century The SS Libau – a German ship sailing under the name Aud which carried guns for 1916...
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were injured. 20–21 April – The German-controlled cargo steamer SS Libau, masquerading as SS Aud, was intercepted by the Royal Navy and scuttled following...
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sloop of the Royal Navy launched on 24 July 1915. The merchant vessel SS Libau (masquerading under the name Aud) was intercepted by Bluebell as she carried...
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to Norway unharmed.[citation needed] In April 1916, the German steamer Libau posed as the neutral Aud when delivering a cargo of rifles for the Easter...
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American Line in 1912 and sailed on North Atlantic routes from Liepāja (Libau) to New York. On one eastbound voyage in October 1913, Czar was one of ten...
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Liepāja massacres (redirect from Libau massacres)
executions, many public or semi-public, in and near the city of Liepāja (German: Libau), on the west coast of Latvia in 1941 after the German occupation of Latvia...
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Fenit Harbour to unload the arms ship Aud, in fact the German ship the SS Libau. However, the ship was scuttled by the captain Karl Spindler after the...
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needed] Easter Rising – The German-controlled cargo steamer SS Libau, masquerading as SS Aud, was intercepted by the Royal Navy and scuttled following...
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by the Russian American Line, who used her as an immigrant ship between Libau and New York. In 1914, she was laid up at Kronstadt during the First World...
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then the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. She was registered in Libau (now Liepāja in Latvia), her code letters were IWAR, and her wireless telegraph...
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Joachim Ziegler (category SS-Brigadeführer)
000 men. In January 1945, the division was ordered to the Baltic port of Libau, where it was evacuated by sea. During the Battle of Berlin, the Nordland...
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the Russian Revolution in 1917. In 1906 it began passenger service from Libau to New York after the Hamburg America Line acquired a controlling interest...
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USAT Buford (redirect from SS Mississippi (1890))
was a combination cargo/passenger ship, originally launched in 1890 as the SS Mississippi. She was purchased by the US Army in 1898 for transport duty in...
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December 1944, Schauenberg was severely damaged in an Allied air raid on Libau. In March 1945, she took part in the Evacuation of East Prussia. On 8 May...
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extension the rest of the German forces. A pocket was formed from Tukums and Libau, with the Baltic Sea in the west, the Irbe Strait in the north, and the...
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Fritz Dietrich (Nazi) (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
September 1941 to November 1943 he served as the local SS and police chief in Liepāja (Libau in German), Latvia. Police units under his command carried...
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Barrow in April 1904, ostensibly bound for France, but was next reported at Libau under the name Anadyr, where she was outfitted as an auxiliary cruiser for...
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Areas). The seat of administration is in parentheses. Dünaburg (Daugavpils) Libau (Liepāja) Mitau (Jelgava) Riga-Land (Riga) Riga-Stadt (Riga) Wolmar (Valmiera)...
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of 92 large and small vessels left the Latvian city of Liepāja (German: Libau) with 18,000 soldiers and civilians. While several hundred of those who...
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