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
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
Soviet submarine S-13
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S-13 was an S-class submarine of the Soviet Navy. Her keel was laid down by Krasnoye Sormovo in Gorky on 19 October 1938. She was launched on 25 April 1939 and commissioned on 31 July 1941 in the Balt
SS General von Steuben
…1945, while evacuating German military personnel, wounded soldiers, and civilian refugees during Operation Hannibal, the ship was torpedoed by the Soviet submarine S-13 and sank. An estimated 4,000 people lost their lives in the sinking. In 1923, München became the first German trans-Atlantic passenger liner to be…
S-13 portrayed on a Russian stamp, issued in 1996