The cargo ship exploded at Florø, Norway, during loading of ammunition. Nineteen people were killed; seven Germans, ten Norwegians imprisoned on charges of treason, one British soldier and one Norwegian guard.[1]
First Indochina War; Battle of Hong Hai: The auxiliary patrol boat/naval junk was scuttled to prevent capture. Eight crewmen were taken as prisoners of war.[3]
10 September
List of shipwrecks: 5 September 1945
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The tug was wrecked at Rabaul, New Guinea. Salvaged by HMAS Reserve (Royal Australian Navy) on 23 September and towed to Madang on 26 September. Sold in 1946.[4]
The passengersteamer (3,372 GRT, 1910) caught fire after running aground in fog off Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska. After her 103 crewmen and 10 passengers abandoned ship, the fire began to threaten facilities in the harbor at Ketchikan, so the tugGeneral Kennedy (Canada) towed her to Pennock Island in Tongass Narrows, where the fire burned itself out. One fireman was killed. The wreck eventually was refloated and scrapped.[17]
The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea 38 nautical miles (70 km) off Port Said, Egypt and was abandoned by her crew and the 496 refugees she was carrying. She was taken in tow but capsized and sank two days later when still 18 nautical miles (33 km) off Port Said.[20]
^"Collision in Thick Fog". The Times. No. 50246. London. 13 September 1945. col C, p. 2.
^Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. 408. ISBN1-85044-275-4.
^Jordan, Roger (1999). The world's merchant fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing. p. 446. ISBN1-86176-023-X.
^Jordan, Roger (1999). The World's Merchant Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham publishing. pp. 518–19. ISBN1-86176-023-X.
^Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990). The Empire Ships (Second ed.). London, New York, Hamburg, Hong Kong: Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. p. 439. ISBN1-85044-275-4.