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Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation
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Date: February 11, 2004 01:54PM

There is reason to believe many more people died when the Moero went down - Estonian refugee sources put the number as high as 2000+. Very many Estonian doctors and nurses and wounded soldiers of more than one nationality (both German occupation troops and Estonians mobilized into service as well as others) perished in the Moero tragedy.

You will appreciate the fact that Tallinn was burning and that Soviet tanks entered the city on 22 September, when the Moero weighed anchor. The refugees being taken aboard in large numbers were close to being in a panic and the passenger lists that were being maintained - if truly maintained at all - may not have reflected the actual situation.

I am researching this and would appreciate any and all hints and followups about where I can get more information.

Several other large ships with Estonian civilians either went down in 1944 , such as Nordstern (500+ dead) and I believe Wartheland. This was prior to the ones that were sunk while evacuating German civilians in 1945 from Polish ports (Wilhelm Gustloff, etc.).

There were also German ships that sustained refugee losses of life in the fall of 1944 such as the RO 22 (estimated 100 dead) , but made it to port in Gdynia.

In addition many drowned when stormy seas overturned crowded smaller vessels en route to Sweden from Estonia back in Sept.-Oct. 1944.

The story is barely known to all but a few.

Thanks ever so kindly to any and all who respond.



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  Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Miroslav Morozov 04/22/2003 09:50AM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Theodor Dorgeist 04/22/2003 11:58AM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation 02/11/2004 01:54PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Theodor Dorgeist 02/11/2004 02:05PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Ann 04/27/2004 09:59PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Ann 04/27/2004 10:07PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Anne-Reet Ilves 07/28/2004 05:26PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Paul Silverstone 07/29/2004 05:28PM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Charles (Kalev) Ehin 02/01/2005 10:19AM
  Re: Ships, damaged during Tallinn evacuation Ann 03/06/2005 08:23PM
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