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    after midnight Mefküre was about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of İğneada in Turkey when flares from an unknown vessel illuminated her. Mefküre failed to respond...
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    during the war were the Bulbul, Mefküre and Morina in August 1944. A Soviet submarine sank the motor schooner Mefküre by torpedo and shellfire and machine-gunned...
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  • in February 1944 when she torpedoed and sank the motor schooner MV Mefküre. Mefküre was carrying between 300 and 400 Jewish refugees, all but five of whom...
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  • Bulbul, Mefküre and Morino sailed from Constanţa carrying about 1,000 refugees between them. In the night the Soviet submarine Shch-215 sank Mefküre by torpedo...
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    that was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine on 5 February 1942 MV Mefküre, a schooner carrying Jewish refugees that was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet...
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    Shipwrecks 2 Aug: USS Fiske 3 Aug: HMS Quorn 4 Aug: Tannenfels, Matsu 5 Aug: Mefküre, U-671 6 Aug: Empire City, Sachsenwald, Thétis, U-471, U-736, U-952, U-969...
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    the Red Cross for similar transfer efforts, including the ill-fated ship Mefküre. (Penkower, pp. 148, 153–155, 157; Deletant, pp. 213–218). Final Report...
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    previously rescued from Tanikaze were also killed. 307 Navy 1944  Turkey Mefküre – Motor schooner chartered to carry Jewish refugees from Romania to Palestine...
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    Shipwrecks 2 Aug: USS Fiske 3 Aug: HMS Quorn 4 Aug: Tannenfels, Matsu 5 Aug: Mefküre, U-671 6 Aug: Empire City, Sachsenwald, Thétis, U-471, U-736, U-952, U-969...
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    More than 300 Jewish refugees perished when the Turkish motor schooner Mefküre was sunk in the Black Sea by shellfire from the Soviet submarine Shch-215...
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