Hello!
I´m looking for any kind of information about hamburg-südamerikanische line, since 1871 to 1945. And, above all, of the merchant ship named Tenerife (1922-1939), sunk in denmark strait in an encounter with the armed merchant cruiser HMS Transylvania. This episode is very interesting, and also the sinking of HMS Transylvania one year later, torpedoed by U-56.
HS Tenerife: 4996 tn; 10 knots; armament?
HMS Transylvania: 16.923 tn; 15.5 knots; 8/152mm; 2/76mm.
Saludos.
HS Tenerife
- cascoskuro
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The HSDG freighter TENERIFE was scuttled by her crew on 21.11.1939 at 62.25 N, 20 W. She displaced 4996 tons. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines ... south.html
That position, I think, is about 360 statute miles east from the HMS HOOD resting place. So this is right at the southern tip of Iceland, not really in the Denmark Strait.
That position, I think, is about 360 statute miles east from the HMS HOOD resting place. So this is right at the southern tip of Iceland, not really in the Denmark Strait.
Ulrich
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Re: HS Tenerife
The Tenerife was not armed and probably trying for the Iceland-Faroes gap rather than the more hazardous Denmark Strait.
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