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TIL a German ocean liner built in 1930 survived two Allied sinkings in WW2. Taken as a British prize, it was renamed HMT Empire Windrush. In 1948 it famously carried a large group of West Indians to the UK. The ship caught fire and sank in 1954; all but 4 of the 1498 passengers and crew survived

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