Wednesday 13 June 2012

DAUNTLESS Visits Ivory Coast – The Type 45 Destroyer DAUNTLESS, en route to the South Atlantic visited the Ivory Coast and took the opportunity to honour the six (of the 39) souls who died when a Flying Boat Support Ship, s.s. DUMANA  was sunk by a U-boat U515 on Christmas Eve 1943.    The destroyer anchored off the fishing port of Sassandra, where some of the dead were washed ashore.   This was the first British warship to visit the area for a long time and from Sassandra the destroyer proceeded to visit the Ivorian capital Abidjan.

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