MV Mefküre
Monument to the vessels Struma and Mefküre in Ashdod, Israel | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | MV Mefküre |
| Operator | Jean D Pandelis |
| Port of registry | Istanbul or Şile |
| Launched | 1929 |
| Out of service | 5 August 1944 |
| Fate | Sunk by Soviet submarine Shch-215, 5 August 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | motor schooner |
| Tonnage | 52 GRT or 120 GRT; 40 NRT |
| Length | 35 m (115 ft) |
| Beam | 8 m (26 ft) |
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| Speed |
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| Crew | 7 |
MV Mefküre (often referred to as Mefkura) was a Turkish wooden-hulled motor schooner chartered to carry Jewish Holocaust refugees from Romania to Istanbul, sailing under the Turkish and Red Cross flags. On 5 August 1944 a Soviet submarine sank her in the Black Sea by cannon and machine gun fire, killing more than 300 Jewish refugees.