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SS Sauternes

steamship built in 1922

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ2227855 ↗
Source-derived summary

SS Sauternes was a steamship built in 1922. It was known as the Jólaskipið (the Christmas Ship) in the Faroe Islands. It sank in a storm in the firth Fugloyarfjørður within the Faroe Islands on 7 December 1941; all 25 passengers and crew were lost. The bodies of five of the service personnel who died are buried in Klaksvík old cemetery.

In addition to general cargo for the British garrison in the Faroes, Sauternes was also carrying 22,500 Danish kroner minted in the United Kingdom for use by the Faroese, since Denmark had been occupied by the Germans and was not sending any currency.

External links

Mortensen, Axel; Hague, Brian. "SS Sauternes". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012.

"SS Sauternes – Some research from LLoyds". Archived from the original on 10 October 2012.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “SS Sauternes” as steamship built in 1922. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 1941, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sauternes, steamship and built can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as steamship built in 1922. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2227855. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1941 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “SS Sauternes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.