Category:Aronia (ship, 1933)
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History
[edit]- Built 1933 by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen for a British billionaire;
- Named Aronia
- 1940 Requisitioned as ‘minesweeping yacht’;
- June 1940 Recorded as being in Sheerness in June 1940; engaged in the troop evacuation off Dunkerque;
- During WWII: said to have transported strategically important material (ball bearings) from Sweden to Britain;
- After WWII she was again in private hands;
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Aronia S Kiel 09-1972.jpg 2,373 × 1,431; 1.33 MB