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MS Chrobry was a transatlantic passenger liner, and was the last pre-war new build for the Polish Merchant Navy. She was built for the Gdynia-Ameryka Linie Żeglugowe S.A. ( Gdynia-America Line – GAL ).
Lieutenant General Claude Auchinleck, the C-in-C of the North Western Expeditionary Force, and Group Captain Moor looking over maps on board the Polish Navy troopship MS Chrobry before docking in Harstad.
MS Chrobry: 1939 Scuttled in 1940 by British torpedo after being damaged by German aircraft SS Chusan: 1949 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1973, work completed in 1974. SS City of Adelaide: 1863 Ran aground in 1916 SS City of Benares: 1936 Torpedoed and sunk on September 17, 1940, while carrying child evacuees SS City of Boston: 1864
MS Chrobry. On 15 May, the Polish troopship Chrobry, with the Irish Guards and Brigade HQ embarked, was attacked by German bombers off the southern Lofoten Islands. Bombs exploding amidships killed all the senior officers of the Irish Guards and set the ship ablaze. The destroyer HMS Wolverine and the sloop HMS Stork rescued over 700 survivors.
MS Chrobry; Japanese aircraft carrier Chūyō; USS Cimarron (AO-22) MV Clary (1939) MV Clio; Italian submarine Comandante Cappellini; Italian submarine Comandante Faà di Bruno; French sloop Commandant Dominé; Italian submarine Console Generale Liuzzi; German trawler V 102 Cressida
On 14 May she deployed with HMS Stork to escort the Polish troopship MS Chrobry as she delivered reinforcements and AA guns to Bodø. Under heavy and sustained air attack, Chrobry received three hits. Wolverine embarked nearly 700 soldiers from the burning troopship, including the Irish Guards, while Stork provided air defence.
He would send troops and supplies in on the Polish transport MS Chrobry. Since most of the remaining troops at Lillesjona were aboard the RMS Empress of Australia, much time was wasted with further trans-shipping, and Chrobry, accompanied by HMS Vanoc got into Namsos just before sunrise on 17 April. In the rush to get away before the German ...
Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Gombrowicz took part in the maiden voyage of the Polish transatlantic liner MS Chrobry to South America. [8] When he learned of the outbreak of war in Europe, he decided to wait in Buenos Aires until it was over; he reported to the Polish legation in 1941 but was considered unfit for military ...