Word: stankiewicz
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...flagship of the Polish merchant marine, chartered by the British Government when Poland disappeared, and of Spaarndam, 8,857-ton Holland-America freighter in the Thames estuary. Aboard Pilsudski, torpedoed northwest of Britain, were only her Polish crew and some British cooks, of whom seven perished. Captain Mamert Stankiewicz, injured by the explosion, waited until the last instant before diving from his bridge into the icy sea. He died on a rescue ship. Killed on Spaarndam were four sailors and an aged U. S. woman passenger...