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The Action of 8 May 1941 was a single ship action fought during the Second World War in the course of which the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sank the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. The engagement took place off the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar.

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  • Action of 8 May 1941
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  • The Action of 8 May 1941 was a single ship action fought during the Second World War in the course of which the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sank the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. The engagement took place off the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar.
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  • 1(xsd:integer)
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dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
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Date
  • 1941-05-08(xsd:date)
Commander
  • 30(xsd:integer)
  • Ernst-Felix Krüder
Caption
  • HMS Cornwall in 1929.
Casualties
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 60(xsd:integer)
  • 332(xsd:integer)
Result
  • British Victory
Notes
  • Civilian Casualties: ~200 killed
combatant
  • Nazi Germany
  • United Kingdom
Place
  • off the Seychelles, Indian Ocean
Conflict
  • --05-08
abstract
  • The Action of 8 May 1941 was a single ship action fought during the Second World War in the course of which the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sank the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. The engagement took place off the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar.
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