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World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
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Prison ship
Ship converted for use as a detention center
A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Some prison ships were hulked. While many nations have deployed prison ships over time, the practice was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
SS Cap Arcona
German ship of the 1930s and 40s
SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a requisitioned auxiliary ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship in the later months of World War II (1939–1945). A flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
SS Thielbek (1940)
German cargo steamship which was sunk, repaired, and renamed multiple times (1940-74)
Thielbek was a 2,815 GRT cargo steamship that was built in Germany in 1940, sunk in an air raid in 1945, refloated in 1949 and repaired, and was in service until 1974. Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft in Lübeck built the ship in 1940 for the Knöhr and Burchard shipping company…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
SS Deutschland (1923)
German ocean liner steamship (1923-45)
SS Deutschland was a 21,046 gross register tons (GRT) German ocean liner of the HAPAG line. It was sunk in a British air attack on May 3, 1945.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Royal Air Force
Air and space warfare force of the United Kingdom
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Bay of Lübeck
Basin off the coast of northeastern Germany
The Bay of Lübeck is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It forms the southwestern part of the Bay of Mecklenburg.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)