• Kergroise was built in 1918 as the German patrol vessel SMS Bunnemann. Allocated to the French Navy in 1920, she was sold in 1921, becoming the fishing...
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    station welcomed its first TGV trains. Port activities continued to expand. The commercial port of Kergroise was upgraded to accommodate larger vessels...
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    destroyed by fire in Le Havre in 1938. Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence built Île de Cuba at Port-de-Bouc, launching her on 27 May 1914. Like CGT's Rochambeau...
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    Kostas Palaskas, sued John Chandris for $7,300 damages. Mari Chandris was in port at Newport News, Virginia at the time, and the Norfolk Division of the Federal...
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    commemorated as unknown) in fishing ports on the French islands of Île de Ré and Île d'Oléron (cemeteries at Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Saint-Trojan-les-Bains,...
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  • light cruisers Arethusa and Galatea as they carried bullion from the Dutch port of IJmuiden to the United Kingdom for safe-keeping. On 12 May, she returned...
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    "The Queen of the Pacific".[citation needed] Niagara had three screws. Her port and starboard screws were each driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion...
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  • Vorpostenboot (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    control of the sea. The capitulation of France allowed for an increase in commerce raiding by German warships against British shipping. Following successful...
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    HMS Glorious (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1939, Glorious spent the rest of the year unsuccessfully hunting for the commerce-raiding German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in the Indian Ocean before returning...
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    destroyer of the Churruca class. In February 1937 Basilisk arrived at the port of Málaga, Spain, captured a few days before by the Franco's forces. Basilisk's...
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