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Ship History Built by Forth Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Alloa in the United Kingdom. Completed 1922 as SS Dampen. Purchased by Mathiesen A. H. (Rederi A/S Mascot) in Oslo, Norway. During 1935 purchased by the Soviet Union and registered in Moscow. Renamed SS Perekop for Perekop on on the Perekop Isthmus connecting the Crimean peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union (USSR). Sinking History On December 18, 1941 although the ship was neutral, bombed by G3M Nells from Mihoro Kōkūtai (Mihoro Air Group) in the South China Sea east of the Natuna Islands, Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Aboard eight of her forty crew were lost. Rescue On January 24, 1942 four wounded crew members were rescued by Do24K-1 X-29 near the Big Naroena Island to the west of Borneo and flown to Pontianak on southwest Borneo where they were hospitalized. References The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942, Second Edition (2023) pages 186 (January 24, 1942) Contribute
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