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Rfa Housatonic

Steam Tanker (period Unassigned)-(1941)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Rfa Housatonic as Steam Tanker (period Unassigned)-(1941). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
RFA Housatonic was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary steam tanker that was sunk by a German U-boat (U-559) on 30 October 1941 during World War II, approximately 350 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt. All 10 crew members were lost, and the wreck is historically significant as one of several Allied ships targeted in the Battle of the Atlantic, highlighting the vulnerability of supply lines during the war.

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