1939 St Louis Cruise Ship

1939 In an effort to flee Nazi Germany more than 930 refugees sailed from Hamburg on May 15 1939 on the SS.

1939 st louis cruise ship. St Louis Center Ship -- Helena sister ship foreground -- Honolulu far background on patrol 1943 in Solomons. All but a handful of. A refugee ship tried to land in the country in 1939.

937 people were aboard when the St Louis started from Hamburg on 13 May 1939 destination Havana Cuba. With Faye Dunaway Oskar Werner Lee Grant Sam Wanamaker. When the ship set sail from Hamburg on May 13 1939 all of its refugee passengers bore legitimate landing certificates for Cuba.

Arrangements for the voyage were organized independently by the Hamburg-American Line without the involvement. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to. The vessel under command of Captain Gustav Schröder was carrying 937 refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution23 Upon the ships arrival in Cuba the Cuban government headed by President Federico Laredo Brú refused to accept the foreign refugees.

Louis about 0900 December 7th 1941 leaving Pearl USS California off Starboard side hit and sinking. Voyage of the Damned. Louis was a German ship carrying 930 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba in May 1939.

They planned to seek asylum in Cuba. It weighed in at 16732 Gross Register Tons and measured 175 metres in length. The Story of the SS.

Louis set sail from Hamburg to Cuba on May 13 1939. Louis from the Nazis. Louis which was forced to return to Europe in 1939 after being turned away from the United States Cuba and Canada with more than 900 Jewish refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany died Tuesday in Aventura Florida.