Psilander affair
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Psilander affair
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The Psilander affair was an incident that occurred in Skálafjørður near Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands on 20 June 1940 in World War II. The British Royal Navy captured the four Swedish destroyers HSwMS Psilander, Puke, Romulus and Remus, together with the Swedish Lloyd passenger ship Patricia and the Trelleborgs Ångfartygs tanker Castor, despite the fact that Sweden was neutral. The incident is said to have been triggered by the British concern that the German navy would otherwise capture the shi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilander_affair
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2023-08-18T09:57:51Z
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