Chronology of World War II
Wednesday, November 15th
Africa Shell
The
Africa Shell
, was a British coastal oil tanker operated by the Shell Company of East Africa Ltd. The ship's life was short, lasting only a matter of months from her introduction into service in 1939, until she was intercepted and sunk by the German pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Spee
in the Mozambique Channel, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, becoming the sixth victim of
Graf Spee's
commerce raiding sortie.