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Action of 6 June 1942
The Action of 6 June 1942 was a single ship action fought during World War II. The German raider ''Stier'' encountered and sank the American liberty ship SS ''Stanvac Calcutta'' while cruising in the South Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
==Background==
The ''Stanvac Calcutta'' was a 10,170 ton tanker with a crew of forty-two merchant marines and nine armed guards aboard. The ship was commanded by Gustav O. Karlsson and the guards by Ensign Edward L. Anderson. Throughout World War II liberty ships were lightly armed and out of the six to be attacked by German raiders, only ''Stanvac Calcutta'' and ''Stephen Hopkins'' offered serious resistance and both were sunk. When Ensign Anderson was assigned to the liberty ship he was responsible for finding armaments and it proved to be difficult. Anderson acquired one 4-inch 50-caliber naval gun salvaged from World War I and an 5-inch 25-caliber anti-aircraft gun from the same era to arm his ship. The ''Stier'' was heavily armed, she was under the command of Captain Horst Gerlach and mounted six 150-millimeter guns, one 37-mm gun, two 20-millimeters and two torpedo tubes. Captain Karlsson left Montevideo on May 29, 1942 headed north along the coast for Caripito, Venezuela.〔Gleichauf, pg. 130-133〕
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