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Sinking of SS Clement - Graf Spee Commerce Raid

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1939

Neville Chamberlain30 September 1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Clement became Admiral Graf Spee's first wartime merchant victim when the German raider sank her southeast of Pernambuco on 30 September 1939.

Names involved

Neville Chamberlain

Provenance

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