MN [Merchant Navy]/Anefo London series Description: Caption Boat being hauled aboard [Lifeboat is taken aboard] Annotation: Repronegative. The Portuguese freighter ss. “Maria Amelia “picks up the shipwrecks from the cargo ship ss. 'Polyphemus' (1930) of the Nederlandsche Steamvaart Maatschappij 'Ocean', after the ship on its way from Sydney to England (via the Panama Canal), under Captain C. Koningstein, was torpedoed at 468 miles from New York by the German submarine 'U 578'. This killed 15 people on board. Date: May 26, 1942 Keywords: merchant fleets, navy, lifeboats, ships, World War II

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Photo credit: © BNA Photographic / Alamy / Afripics
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