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S.S. WROCLAW, negative
Port bow view of S.S. WROCLAW entering Cardiff Docks.
Built 1935 by Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft, Flensburg, as OTTO ALFRED MULLER for O.A. Muller of Hamburg. 1944 – Burned and sunk in an allied air raid on the 17th August at Szczecin, Poland. 1947 – Raised by Polish servicemen and rebuilt at Gdynia Shipyard. 1950 – Ownership transferred to the Polish Steamship Co., Szczecin, and entered service in 1951 as ss WROCLAW. Struck rocks on the morning of 4th June 1968 off the coast of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, and sank that night. (Tony Allen’s “Wrecksite”)
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
79.76I/4562
Measurements
Length
(mm): 60
Width
(mm): 87
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