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Havre

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1905 Havre Anglo-Algerian S.S. Co. (1896) Ltd.
1907 Havre Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd.

Fate

Left Alexandria on 9 June 1942 on a voyage for Tobruk with a cargo of cased benzene & a compliment of 50 & was torpedoed by German submarine U-81 (Friedrich Guggenberger) & sank 50 miles W of Alexandria on 10 June 1942. Master George Christopher Pearson. 20 lives were lost.

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