1939 St Louis Cruise Ship
What happened to the St Louis ship in 1939.
1939 st louis cruise ship. As the MS. Voyage of the Damned. Louis and reached Havana Cuba on May 27 1939.
On the voyage in question it was very near its passenger capacity of 973. ˈɡʊstaf ˈʃʁøːdɐ listen. On Saturday 13 May 1939 the SS St Louis a ship of the Hapag line left the port of Hamburg in Germany and set sail for Havana in Cuba.
Battle damage from torpedo hit at Kolobangara in Solomons. Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba on May 13 1939. Attempting to save 937 German Jews aboard the MS St.
With Faye Dunaway Oskar Werner Lee Grant Sam Wanamaker. The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. They were German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and hoping to start new lives.
When the ship set sail from Hamburg on May 13 1939 all of its refugee passengers bore legitimate landing certificates for Cuba. On May 13 1939 it departed from Hamburg Germany for Havana Cuba a popular stopover for refugees seeking to immigrate to the United States. The ship of Jewish refugees nobody wanted.
St Louis Center Ship -- Helena sister ship foreground -- Honolulu far background on patrol 1943 in Solomons. It weighed in at 16732 Gross Register Tons and measured 175 meters in length. The MS Motorschiff St Louis was a diesel-powered vessel launched in 1928.
