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After leaving the port of Calcutta, India, on 1st December 1942, she arrived in Durban, South Africa, on the 18th. The Empire March set sail again, and when it reached a position about 150 miles (242 km) north-west of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, it was intercepted by the German raider Michel (HSK-9), which attacked it with cannon and sank it on 2 January 1943, in position 37°S/12°W. Of her crew, 33 lost their lives. The captain and 24 other sailors were taken prisoner of war.
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Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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