1939 St Louis Cruise Ship

Battle damage from torpedo hit at Kolobangara in Solomons.

1939 st louis cruise ship. The MS Motorschiff St Louis was a diesel-powered vessel launched in 1928. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to. As the MS.

Louis Gustav Schröder German. On board were 937 Jewish passengers. The French Navy Marine Nationale created a series of heavy cruiser designs in 1939 to follow the Algérie but free of the limitations imposed on warship construction by the London Naval Treaty and Washington Naval.

It weighed in at 16732 Gross Register Tons and measured 175 meters in length. Louis and reached Havana Cuba on May 27 1939. Within that context 907 Jews from Germany and Austria boarded the SS.

Louis 1939 The Story of the SS. A refugee ship tried to land in the country in 1939. The Story of the SS.

The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted. On May 13 1939 it departed from Hamburg Germany for Havana Cuba a popular stopover for refugees seeking to immigrate to the United States. Louis sailed out of Hamburg into the Atlantic Ocean in May 1939 carrying one non-Jewish and 936 mainly German Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution just before World War II.

Louis to flee Nazi persecution. Louis - Flank speed on Shakedown Cruise 1939. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to the US but were turned away in Havana and forced to return to Europe where more than 250 were killed by the Nazis.