Alexander Marinesko
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Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko was a Soviet career naval officer. During the last year of World War II, he became known as the captain of the submarine S-13, which sank the German military transport sh
Marinesko in 1945
Attack of the century. Death of Wilhelm Gustloff. Vladimir Kosov
Monument to Alexander Marinesko in St. Petersburg
Alexandru Marinescu on a Moldovan stamp
SS General von Steuben
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SS General von Steuben was a German passenger liner and later an armed transport ship of the German Navy that was sunk in the Baltic Sea during World War II. She was launched in 1923 as München, renam
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…Prussia. 9,343 people lost their lives. Days later, just before midnight on 10 February, Marinesko sank a second German ship with two torpedoes, the Steuben, carrying mostly wounded military personnel and more than 800 civilians who were evacuating East Prussia and Memel (now Klaipėda). The former…
SS General von Steuben
Passengers disembark from the München at Gudvangen, Norway in the summer of 1925
Scuba diver examining one of Steuben's engine order telegraphs