SS Silesia
Appearance
Several steamships have been named Silesia after the province of Schlesien
- SS Silesia is also the name of an unrelated Swedish cargo vessel built in 1923 and sunk by the German submarine U-36 off the Norwegian coast near Stavanger on 25 November 1939.[1][2]
- SS Silesia is also the name of an Austrian vessel sequestered by the Italian government in 1920 and claimed as a war prize of the Chinese government.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "SS Silesia (+1939)". WreckSite. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
- ^ Fairplay: Weekly Shipping Journal (152). London: Fairplay Publications: 472. 1939.
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(help) - ^ "F 1609/10/20 Seizure at Trieste of Austrian ship condemned in Shanghai Prize Court" (PDF). Confidential British Foreign Office Correspondence. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. p. 38.