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Note
Date 12 February 1940
Event ID 608842
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/608842
(Classified as submarine: date of loss cited as 12 February 1940). U-33: this vessel was depth-charged in the Firth of Clyde by HMS Gleaner. 25 dead. [Captain] Von Dreskey.
Registration: German. Built 1936. 745 tons displacement. Length: 63m. Beam: 6m.
(Location cited as N55 21.48 W5 1.73).
I G Whittaker 1998.
