File:Struma (ship).jpg

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Licensing[edit]

This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Struma_(ship).jpg true

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Fair use rationale or use in MV Struma[edit]

• Only known image in existence of the MV Struma, which was sunk by a torpedo fired by a Soviet sub on February 24, 1942, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor.
• Used to illustrate the ship in the article about the ship
• There is no known monetary value to this image, and its copyright holder is unknown
• There is no free replacement
• Illustrates a ship which was sunk in a unique historical event
• Used for historical and educational purposes