• SS Vyner Brooke was a Scottish-built steamship that was both the royal yacht of Sarawak and a merchant ship frequently used between Singapore and Kuching...
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    Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, GCMG, full name Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke (26 September 1874 – 9 May 1963) was the third and last White Rajah...
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    defeat, and, on 12 February, Bullwinkel and 65 other nurses boarded the SS Vyner Brooke to escape. Two days later, the ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft....
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  • advance. In February 1942, Halligan was evacuated from Singapore on the SS Vyner Brooke. Together with 65 Australian nurses and over 250 civilian men, women...
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  • serious damage to the refinery, but the oil stores are set ablaze. The SS Vyner Brooke, Scottish steamship, is bombed and sunk by Japanese planes while evacuating...
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    of the Allies had surrendered in Java. A steamship of Sarawak, the SS Vyner Brooke, was sunk while evacuating nurses and wounded servicemen in the aftermath...
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    Retrieved 31 July 2013. Allen, Tony; Vleggeert, Nico (17 July 2013). "SS Vyner Brooke (+1942)". WreckSite. Archived from the original on 10 November 2021...
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    to Australia on a ship carrying hundreds of women and children, the SS Vyner Brooke. The ship was struck by a bomb in the Bangka Strait. Paschke's life...
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    SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service...
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    for Prince Youssouf Kamal of Egypt SS Vyner Brooke (1928) for the King of Sarawak, named after Sir Charles Vyner Brooke Barquentine Mercator for the Belgian...
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    SS Kurtuluş was a Turkish cargo ship which became famous for her humanitarian role in carrying food aid during the famine Greece suffered under the Axis...
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    SS Tembien was an Italian steamship sunk during the Second World War. She had been built in Germany in 1914 and served under a number of names before joining...
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    USS Thresher (SS-200) was the most decorated United States Navy submarine of World War II, with 15 battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation. Thresher...
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    USS Greenling (SS-213), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the greenling. Greenling was laid down by...
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    immigration of Chinese as peasant farmers. During the era of Charles Vyner Brooke (1917–1946), he continued his predecessor's policy of promoting land...
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    26 July 2015. EFC Design 1095: Illustrations (Outboard profile, deck house plan, includes photo of Blue Hen State] Wreck of SS President Taylor (1942)...
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    laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Hoboken, N.J. as SS Comet on 26 May 1939; launched on 16 December 1939, acquired by the Navy on...
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    USS Shark (SS-174) was a Porpoise-class submarine, the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark. Shark′s keel was laid down by the...
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  • SS Miraflores was a freighter lost on 19 February 1942. The ship left New Orleans on 6 February 1942 with a crew of 34 and made an intermediate stop in...
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  • leadership, the ruling party NSDAP, the military high command, the paramilitary SS, the security services, the civil occupation authorities, as well as individual...
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  • David Stoliar, survived (he died in 2014). The Struma disaster joined that of SS Patria, which was sunk after Haganah sabotage in a failed attempt to prevent...
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    SS Zealandia, nicknamed "Z" (or "Zed"), was an Australian cargo and passenger steamship. She served as a troopship in both World War I and World War II...
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    Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 16 Feb: Monagas 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire...
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  • SS Monagas was a Venezuelan tanker that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-502 in the Gulf of Venezuela 12 nautical miles (22 km) west of Punta Macolla...
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    steamer SS Poza Rica northwest of Cape Hatteras. Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: Civilian Ships: S.S. W...
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    MV Struma (redirect from SS Struma)
    Retrieved 25 March 2013. Allen, Tony; Lettens, Jan (22 December 2012). "SS Struma (Струма) (+1942)". WreckSite.eu. Retrieved 25 March 2013. "Xantha"...
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    Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 16 Feb: Monagas 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire...
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    Malayan soldiers. The last convoy of evacuees leaving Singapore included SS Sing Kheng Seng of the Straits Shipping Company, carrying 45 crewmen from...
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  • Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 16 Feb: Monagas 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire...
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  • Feb: HMS Tempest 14 Feb: HMS Grasshopper, HMS Li Wo, President Taylor, Vyner Brooke 15 Feb: HNLMS Van Ghent 16 Feb: Monagas 17 Feb: USS Detector, Empire...
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