Talk:SS Indigirka

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Did you know... that the Gulag ship Indigirka was shipwrecked trying to enter the La Perouse Strait with a loss of 741 lives?

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Some comments

In a number of reports the date of Indigirka's end is given as 12/12/39; in the article I used Rold Skiold's report[1] because it is detailed providing the time: 0220. His report indicates that the Japanese were not told of the trapped prisoners for 3 days which, however, appears doubtful, as the NYT reports already on 12/14 of a potential loss of about 700 people.[2].Ekem (talk) 13:57, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]