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in June 1938. This is where she was launched and completed that same year. The ship was 90.9 metres (298 ft 3 in) long, had a beam of 13.3 metres (43 ft 8 in) and had a depth of 5.3 metres (17 ft 5 in). She was assessed at
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All but one of her 27 crew died in the sinking. A fireman named Julio Faust Rivera was blown overboard by the torpedo impact and managed to swim to a loose raft before passing out. He was rescued 12 hours later by
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and had 1 x 3 cyl. Compound expansion steam engine and a L.P. turbine with SR driving a single screw propeller. The ship could generate 231 n.h.p. with a speed of 12.5 knots thanks to her two steam boilers.
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in ballast when on 13 March 1942 at 6.43 am, she was hit near the bridge by a
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Chilean cargo ship, sunk by a German submarine in 1942
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Index

Denmark
Chile
Chile
Valparaiso
Chile
Cargo ship
GRT
Cargo ship
German submarine U-404
Atlantic Ocean
Barnegat, New Jersey
Baltimore
United States
New York City
New York (state)
United States
Aalborg VĂŠrft A/S shipyard
Aalborg
Denmark
GRT
List of wars involving Chile
Latin America during World War II
neutral
Baltimore
United States
New York City
New York (state)
United States
torpedo
German submarine U-404

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