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RE: Brambleleaf
Posted by: Bill Watt (IP Logged)
Date: January 15, 2002 02:53AM

9th. June 1942 - Off Mersa Alun, the oiler Brambleleaf was torpedoed and damaged by U-559, while bound in convoy from Alexandria to Tobruk. She became an oil hulk at Alexandria.
Source - Britain's Sea War, A diary of Ship Losses 1939-1945.
also
Brambleleaf 9.6.42 Torpedoed (in convoy AT49) by U-559, damaged,
13 dead ; towed Alexandria, repaired, hulked; 15.9.44 suddenly sank at stern; TL.
Source - The World's Merchant Fleets 1939, by Roger W. Jordan

Regards,

Bill



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  RE: Brambleleaf Rainer Kolbicz 01/15/2002 01:20AM
  RE: Brambleleaf Bill Watt 01/15/2002 02:53AM
  RE: Brambleleaf Bill Watt 01/15/2002 03:21AM


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