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SHIPS HIT BRITAIN 240 * - M N O

15)NATIA (RAIDER THOR)




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Built 1920


Tonnage: 8,715 / 9,707 tons


Cargo: Ballast


Route: London – Buenos Aires


Sunk 08 OCT 40 by Raider Thor on pos. 00º 50”N  32º 24”W


1 Dead


84 POW


Identified as the 8,715-ton British Royal Mail refrigeration ship Natia, in ballast from London to Buenos Aires, with crew of eighty-five, one of whom had lost his life, the eighty-four survivors, including one man who would later succumb to his injuries on board the raider and be buried at sea.


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