''Donbass'' (russian: Донбасс) was a Soviet ''Emba''-class tanker sunk by the on 7 November 1942, when it was on its way from Arkhangelsk to Reykjavík. The case aroused considerable later interest due to the widely held assertion that the Soviet spy Arnold Deutsch was among the passengers killed in the attack, and that he was at the time bound for an espionage mission in the Western Hemisphere.

Legacy

Three American tankers received by the Soviet Union through the

Lend-Lease Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ...

were renamed in her honor.

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Fleet register 1880–2005 - Fesco

"Донбасс" (1), танкер
1932 ships Maritime incidents in November 1942 World War II shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean World War II tankers Shipwrecks in the Barents Sea Ships built at the Black Sea Shipyard {{Merchantship-stub