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modell Shantung.jpg On the model of Shantung you can see the placment of the lifeboats, 2 on port and 2 on starboard. I know that a order went out to all Swedish ships to carry a loose liferaft on top of the cargo hatch. I do not know when this order was sent out. She was built on Götaverken in Got...

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I have translated a Swedish document for you as regarding the loss of Schangtung and the Canadian RCAF fellas.
My granduncle was the first mate on the ship.
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Jesper Jensen

https://www.rcafassociation.ca/heritage/history/fallen-aviators/rcaf-casualties-second-world-war/bishop-to-boothe/ When searching this memorial site I get the below BISHOP, ROBERT ALBERT SGT(WAG) R74699. From Vancouver, British Columbia. Killed in Action Dec 25/41 age 19. Lost at sea when the S.S. S...

Hi Again I found this messeage on an norwegian merchant site, guest book, it was posted 2004 but the book is closed now. ".....Dec. 29 2004 From: A.H.BUTLER SHANTUNG 1941 Hi FOLKS, seek your help. I do voluntary research for folks,although i am ex MN one covers all aspects of services. My MN Canadia...

The picture of the ship is when she was moored in Copenhagen sometime in 1940.

Swedish Report on Merchamt Marine Vessels Lost i WWII, date 1963, language Swedish Link: https://filedn.com/ljdBas5OJsrLJOq6KhtBYC4/forarbeten/sou/1963/sou-1963-60.pdf Page 123 The motor ship "Shantung", as a result of sabotage wrecked on December 24 1941 in the North Atlantic. Reg.nr 7552; built in...

To Sgt Donald Houston My grandmothers brother was the first mate of Swedish ms Shantung, owned by Broströms Line in Gothenburg. She loaded cotton and general cargo in New Orleans. She then sailed to Halifax Canada to join convoy HX-165 bound for Liverpool. I have seen figures of 3 -5 passagers, I kn...