• MS Hans Hedtoft was a Danish cargo passenger liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January 1959 on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland...
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    Hans Hedtoft Hansen (21 April 1903 – 29 January 1955) was a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1947...
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    will be convened in Rome. January 30 – Danish passenger/cargo ship MS Hans Hedtoft, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes...
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  • representative in the Danish parliament and died during the sinking of the MS Hans Hedtoft. Augustinus Telef Nis Lynge was born 16 October 1899 in the settlement...
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    1858. This website has a transcript of radio communications between MS Hans Hedtoft (OXKA) and FV Johannes Krüss (DEQW). "ITU >> "Radio Regulations Articles"...
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  • and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman. 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg...
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    weather at Cape Farewell, Greenland. On January 7, 1959, when the ship MS Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg at Cape Farvel, the radio telegraphist at the weather...
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  • hands. 59°30′N 43°00′W / 59.500°N 43.000°W / 59.500; -43.000 (MS Hans Hedtoft) USS Hayler  United States Navy 13 November 2004 A Spruance-class destroyer...
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    released Walt Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty. The Danish ship MS Hans Hedtoft, returning to Copenhagen with 95 people on board after its maiden voyage...
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  • C. Hansen 7 January – MS Hans Hedtoft departs from Copenhagen on her maiden journey to Greenland. 14 January – M/S Hans Hedtoft arrives at Julianehåb...
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  • MS Zenobia was a Swedish-built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea, close to Larnaca, Cyprus...
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    maritime incidents in 1959 Shipwrecks 23 Jan: Natone 25 Jan: Yandra 30 Jan: Hans Hedtoft 19 Feb: Marios II 3 Mar: USS Cassia County 13 Mar: USS Lyon County 13...
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    City of Honolulu (1896/1922) Georges Philippar (1932) Magdalena (1949) Hans Hedtoft (1959) Zenobia (1980) Cargo ships Batavia (1629) Vansittart (1719)2 Fortuyn...
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    After the November 1947 Danish Folketing election, the new government of Hans Hedtoft continued and expanded Kauffmann's strategy of duplicity. To the Danish...
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    the Volga near Yaroslavl on 9 July. At least 98 died. 98 1959  Denmark Hans Hedtoft – The liner was sailing from Greenland when she struck an iceberg and...
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    SS Eastland, a ship capsizing in 1915 after being fitted with extra lifeboats MS Estonia RMS Empress of Ireland The death toll of the sinking of Tek Sing in...
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    Swedes. An hour later, the German flotilla encountered the Swedish cruiser HSwMS Gotland; the cruiser shadowed the Germans for two hours in the Kattegat. Gotland...
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  • Portugal's coast". CNN. 23 September 2018. "6 more bodies recovered from MS Bulgaria". United Press International. Retrieved 10 November 2011. WRECKSITE...
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    Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz leaked the plans for arrest and deportation to Hans Hedtoft several days before the plan was to be put in motion. The terms of occupation...
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    Venstre party and the Conservative People's Party of outgoing premier Hans Hedtoft. Born: Louise DuArt, American comedian and voice impersonator; in Quincy...
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