Tobruk was a 7,090 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 as Empire Builder by William Gray & Company Ltd for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). On completion she was handed over to the Polish government-in-exile (along with four others; Narwik, Bałtyk, Białystok and Borysław, which in 1950 was renamed to Bytom) and renamed Tobruk. She was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War. She was sold in 1951 to Polskie Linie Oceaniczne and served until 1967. She was scrapped in 1968.
wartime history of the ship has been portrayed in a novel S.S. Tobruk – w konwojach śmierci (SSTobruk – in the convoys of death) by Jan Kazimierz Sawicki....
honours have been awarded to ships named HMAS Tobruk: Korea 1951–53 Malaya 1956 East Timor 1999 SSTobruk "Navy Marks 109th Birthday With Historic Changes...
Gdynia-America Line SS Narwik 1951 - 1972 Scrapped, 1970s Gdynia-America Line SSTobruk 1951 - 1968 Scrapped, 1968 Ministry of War Transport SS Jedność 1951...
[ˈaɪnzatsˌɡʁʊpm̩], lit. 'deployment groups'; also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass...
ships had arrived safely, more than two-thirds of the convoy. The freighter Tobruk was credited with shooting down one bomber and another probable on 30 April...
captured by 8 April, except for the port city of Tobruk, which was besieged on 11 April. The siege of Tobruk was not technically a siege, as the defenders...
recruited from Indian POWs captured at El Mekili, Libya during the battles for Tobruk. The German forces in the Western Desert selected a core group of 27 POWs...
in 1902 68 SSTobruk Italian Navy gunboat 1897 Built as yacht Evona - since 1912 RN Tobruk 70 SS Hebrides Passenger ship 24 March 1898 78 SS Katoomba Patrol...
SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...
SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands...
all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally...
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
America Line in 1927 and renamed Delos. Sunk in air attack off Tobruk 11 July 1941. SS Donau (1922 Lübeck) was a 1,927-ton cargo ship launched on 19 December...
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's defeat of the British at Tobruk in June 1942, the SS set up a special extermination unit to follow in the wake of...
58°09′30″N 11°11′40″E / 58.15833°N 11.19444°E / 58.15833; 11.19444 SS Suevic was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star...
USS Apogon (SS-308), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the apogons, a genus of cardinalfishes found in tropical and...
167°14′6.78″E / 15.5242000°S 167.2352167°E / -15.5242000; 167.2352167 SS President Coolidge was an American luxury ocean liner that was completed in...
SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western...
The SS Hydrus was an American steel-hulled Great Lakes bulk freighter, constructed in 1903 and launched as the R.E. Schuck. She was following the SS James...
Afrika Korps to complete their assignment. On 20 July 1942 Rauff was sent to Tobruk to report to Rommel, Commander of the Afrika Korps. But since Rommel was...
United Kingdom TBX Tobago Express TABEX Trinidad and Tobago 7T TOB Tobruk Air TOBRUK AIR Libya TOJ TOJ Airlines TOJ AIRLINE Tajikistan TI TOL Tol-Air Services...
Flowers (1964). During the late 1960s, his films included Seconds (1966), Tobruk (1967), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). Unhappy with the film scripts he was...
other air forces during the late 1930s. Developed privately as the Gloster SS.37, it was the RAF's last biplane fighter aircraft, and was rendered obsolescent...
SS Empire Comfort was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMS York Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle...
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