Ship "Vienotiba" sunk near Liepaja
A hospital ship "Vieniba", which was nationalised and operated by USSR, which occupied Latvia in 1940.
Ship was sunk on 27 June 1941 by other advancing occupiers - German aircrafts. The ship was evacuating wounded USSR military personnel and refugees from the USSR year earlier occupied Latvian port city of Liepaja.
More than 800 people were killed; eight survivors reached the coast and another five were picked up by an escort torpedo-boat.
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