What the records say
- When
- 23 Jun 1941
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 31.29° N, 34.25° E
- Description
- Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedoed by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths.
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Refah.
Summary
Refah tragedy, a Turkish ship was torpedoed by an anonymous battle ship, causing 168 deaths
Refah tragedy
1941 maritime disaster in Turkey
The Refah tragedy was a maritime disaster that took place during World War II, in June 1941, when the cargo steamer Refah of neutral Turkey, carrying Turkish military personnel from Mersin in Turkey to Port Said, Egypt, was sunk in eastern Mediterranean waters by a torpedo fired from an unidentified submarine. Of the 200 passengers and crew aboard, only 32 survived.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Refah şilebi Mersin'den İskenderiye'ye giderken bir denizaltı tarafından Mersin açıklarında batırıldı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مأساة الرفاه”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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