history · 09 February 1940 · 84 years ago
British vessel Chagres, carrying 1,500 tons of Cameroonian bananas, hit a mine deployed by German submarine U-30 on 6 Jan 1940. Chagres sank 10 miles from her destination, killing 2. The remaining 62 men were rescued by anti-submarine trawler HMS Loch Montreith.
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