The Teja was a German cargo ship that was sunk in World War II . According to various sources, 4,000 to 5,000 people were killed in its demise.
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The cargo ship with diesel-electric propulsion was commissioned by the Soviet Union in 1941 from the Ganz Danubius shipyard in Újpest, Hungary . The name of this largest ship built by the shipyard to date was originally supposed to be Simferopol . Due to the course of the war, Hungary took possession of the unfinished ship on the Helgen and named it Magyar Tengerész when it was launched in 1942 . In 1942 the ship was put into service for the Magyar Kereskedelmi Tengerhajózási shipping company from Budapest .
On May 8, 1944, the Teja was sent together with her sister ship Totila and other units from the port of Constanța on the Romanian Black Sea coast to the enclosed Sevastopol fortress to assist in their evacuation. In the morning hours of May 10th she took several thousand people - mostly soldiers - on board and started the journey back to Constanța. In the early afternoon the ship was bombed by Soviet planes and sunk. Only a few hundred of the people on board could be rescued by other vehicles; between 4,000 and 5,000 people were killed.
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