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MS Oslofjord (1937)

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MS Oslofjord was an ocean liner built in 1938 by A/G Weser Shipbuilders, Bremen, Germany, for Norwegian America Line. She was of 18,673 gross register tons, and could carry 860 passengers. She would had a uneventful career until in 1939 were two separate incidents happened. One 27 April 1939, Oslofjord collided with the American an pilot boat, and other were she struck a mine sinking her.

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