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Magdalena

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1923 Magdalena A.C. Lensen
1932 Magdalena Lensen Shipping Ltd.
1939 Magdalena Smith, Hogg & Co.

Fate

Bound from St Johns, Newfoundland for Sydney, Holyhead & Liverpool with a cargo of iron-ore & a total complement of 31 Magdalena became a straggler from convoy SC-3 & was torpedoed by German submarine (U-48 Heinrich Bleichrodt) & sank south of Iceland on 18 September 1940. All 31 lives lost. Master Frederick Allen.

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