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MV Wilhelm Gustloff was a German military transport ship originally built as a cruise ship for the Strength Through Joy organization in the 1930s. On January 30, 1945, it was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 while participating in Operation Hannibal, evacuating German civilians and military pe...
RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard Line ocean liner that was requisitioned by the government for use as a troopship during World War II. On June 17, 1940, the ship was bombed by German aircraft off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, France, while participating in Operation Ariel, the evacuation of British...
MV Goya was a Norwegian freighter that was requisitioned by Germany during World War II and used as a troop transport and refugee vessel. On April 16, 1945, while participating in the evacuation of German military personnel and civilians from the eastern Baltic, the ship was spotted and torpedoed by...
HMS Birkenhead was a British iron-hulled paddle steamer used as a troopship that struck a submerged rock and sank off the coast of South Africa on 26 February 1852. With too few serviceable boats for everyone aboard, soldiers remained assembled while women and children were placed in the available b...
SS President Coolidge was a luxury ocean liner originally built for the American President Lines. In the lead-up to World War II, the U.S. War Department converted her into a troopship for the United States Army. On October 26, 1942, while entering the harbor at Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides (n...
SS Rohna was a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger and cargo ship used as a troop transport during the Second World War. On 26 November 1943, a German aircraft struck it off the Algerian coast with a Henschel Hs 293 radio-guided glide bomb. The sinking killed more than 1,100 people, inc...
HMT Empire Windrush was a British troopship originally launched in Germany as Monte Rosa in 1930 and taken as a war prize after the Second World War. It became historically associated with the arrival at Tilbury in June 1948 of hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean, an event linked with the Wind...
SS Khedive Ismail was a British troop transport sunk in the Indian Ocean during the Second World War. On 12 February 1944, the Japanese submarine I-27 torpedoed the ship while it was carrying military personnel and other passengers from East Africa toward Ceylon. Approximately 1,297 of roughly 1,511...
USAT Dorchester was a United States Army transport carrying troops and other personnel across the North Atlantic during the Second World War. The German submarine U-223 torpedoed it near Greenland on 3 February 1943, and the ship sank with heavy loss of life. The disaster is remembered for four Army...
SS Leopoldville was a Belgian passenger liner converted for use as an Allied troopship during the Second World War. On 24 December 1944, the German submarine U-486 torpedoed her in the English Channel near Cherbourg while she was transporting United States Army troops to Europe. The ship sank after...
American troopship torpedoed on 23 October 1915 in the Aegean Sea by a German submarine, killing around 167, including members of the New Zealand Medical Corps.
