Territory Stories

D/S Fingal

Details:

Title

D/S Fingal,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Norway,

Service

Merchant Fleet,

Service branch

Cargo Steamship,

Unit

D/S Fingal,

Parent unit

Dampsk-A/S International,

Date arrived in NT

1943-02-09,

Date left the NT

1943-02-16,

History

Fingal made 1 trip to Darwin. On her last trip, a Sydney to Darwin run, on 5 May 1943, she was torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-180. There were 19 survivors.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Norway, Cargo, Steamship, D/S Fingal,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C249100 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 303287, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/FERNPLANT_FORT-TREMBLANT.pdf [Fingal (0629) p.6], http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/fingal.html [D/S Fingal],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843645,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843645

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843952,