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The Belgian Merchant Navy 1939–1945

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Da Silva Octavio

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Served aboard

Ship	Date lost or attacked	Rank	Fate	Note
S/S OSTENDE	21 January 1943	Fireman (Stoker)	Survived

Crew lists transcribed from a post-war printed source on the Belgian merchant navy, supplemented from reference works on the U-boat war. See Sources and method.

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