HMS Salopian (F94)
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HMS Salopian (F94)
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HMS Salopian was a motor ship that was built in 1926 as the passenger ship Shropshire. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and cargo services between Rangoon in Burma and various ports in Great Britain, via the Suez Canal and Gibraltar. The Admiralty requisitioned Shropshire in 1939, had her converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC), and renamed her Salopian. A German U-boat sank her in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1941. She was the second of five Bibby Line ships to be named a
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UK passenger liner that became an armed merchant cruiser
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Salopian_(F94)
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2024-03-31T02:51:13Z
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