Struma disaster: , carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-administered Palestine

Quand

24 févr. 1942

Type

Événement

Coordonnées

41.38° N, 29.22° E

Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Struma disaster.

Struma disaster: , carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-administered Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by Soviet submarine Shch-213 in the Black Sea, killing about 791 men, women and children, with only 1 survivor.

1942 maritime attack in the Black Sea

The Struma disaster was the sinking on 24 February 1942 of the ship MV Struma which had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from the Axis member Romania to Mandatory Palestine. She was a small iron-hulled ship of only 240 GRT and had been built in 1867 as a steam-powered schooner but had recently been re-engined with an unreliable second-hand diesel engine.

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