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Sarthe

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1920 Sarthe Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.

Fate

On a voyage from Port Said, Aden for Lourenco Marques, Rio de Janeiro & Buenos Aires with a cargo of bauxite & pinewood & 57 persons on board including 8 gunners Sarthe was torpedoed by German submarine U-68 (Karl Friedrich Merten) & broke in two & sank SW of the Cape of Good Hope in 34.50S/18.40E on 8 October 1940.

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