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HMS Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle sinking in the Med, after being struck by an aerial torpedo in 1943
Commissioned as a troop transport in the Second World War, Windsor Castle was sunk in 1943 by a torpedo launched from a German aircraft while in the Mediterranean Sea as part of convoy KMF-11. She was hit by the torpedo at 2:30 am but did not sink until 5:25 pm, stern first, 110 miles (180 km) WNW of Algiers, Algeria. Only one crewman, Junior Engineer Officer William Ogilvie Mann, died. 2,699 troops and 289 crew were removed by the destroyers HMS Whaddon, HMS Eggesford, and HMS Douglas.
Name: SS Windsor Castle
Owner: Union-Castle Line
Port of registry: Southampton, United Kingdom
Builder: John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland
Launched: 9 March 1921
Maiden voyage: April 1922
Fate: Sunk on 23 March 1943 by a German aircraft off Algiers, Algeria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Windsor_Castle_(1922)
 

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