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Crew of Brixham fishing smack Gratitude 40grt, being questioned by the U-boat that has captured and sunk their vessel with bombs (Cover photo for "Brixham Built, Owned or Registered Vessels Lost to U-boats in WW1" prepared by Mike Miller 2003 for Gordon Smith - with thanks. Click to enlarge)

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An update of the merchant ships and fishing vessels in the original  and uncorrected "British Vessels Lost at Sea", HMSO, 1919



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 Notes:

(1) Ships in BOLD capitals are those sunk or otherwise lost; in lower case bold, attacked and/or damaged. Variations in the published information are in brackets starting with an abbreviation for the source e.g. (wi - in 53.50N, 00.50E).


(2) Merchant ship and fishing vessel information is generally in the order - gross tonnage/build year, owner, registration port or place of ownership/management, crew if known, master or skipper, voyage and cargo, conditions if known. How sunk or damaged, lives lost (source abbreviations start with H for original HMSO entry)


(3) Three items of information, the first two from the original HMSO lists, have been excluded to save space.  (i) All merchant ships and fishing vessels torpedoed, were ATTACKED WITHOUT WARNING;  (ii) if no casualties are shown, NO LIVES WERE LOST; (iii) all sinkings and attacks were by GERMAN SUBMARINES or U-boats unless otherwise stated.


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INDEX OF SHIPS LISTED IN 'BRITISH MERCHANT VESSELS LOST 1914-1918'

by Dr Graham Watson

(damaged merchant ships, fishing vessels, and some vessels in the main contents e.g. detained ships, are not included in the following HMSO index)


A

Aaro, 1 August 1916
Abbasieh, 22 August 1918
Abeja, 9 March 1917
Abelia, 30 December 1915
Abosso, 24 April 1917
Aboukir, 3 February 1918
Aburi, 17 April 1917
Acadian, 16 September 1918
Achaia, 7 September 1916
Achille Adam, 23 March 1917
Achilles [7,043grt], 31 March 1916
Achilles [641grt], 9 June 1917
Acorn, 26 September 1917
Acton, 31 March 1917
Ada, 11 February 1917
Adalia, 29 July 1917
Adams, 17 October 1917
Adamton, 8 April 1916
Adela, 27 December 1917
Adansi, 6 May 1917
Addah, 15 June 1917
Adenwen, 25 March 1917
Admiral, 2 July 1918
Afric, 12 February 1917
Africa, 16 September 1915
African Monarch, 6 July 1915
African Prince, 21 July 1917
African Transport, 25 June 1918
Afton, 15 February 1917
Agberi, 25 December 1917
Agios Nicolaos, 14 September 1918
Agnes, 26 December 1916
Agnes Cairns, 26 April 1917
Agnete, 24 April 1918
Agricola, 12 September 1917
Aigburth, 5 December 1917
Ailsa, 18 June 1915
Ailsa Craig, 15 April 1918
Aislaby, 27 December 1916
Akassa, 13 August 1917
Alacrity, - March 1916
Alastair, 6 November 1915
Alaunia, 19 October 1916
Alavi, 13 October 1917
Alcyone [149grt], 1 August 1917
Alcyone [116grt], 7 October 1917
Aldershot, 23 September 1918
Alert [289grt], 28 November 1916
Alert [777grt], 15 April 1917
Alert [59grt], 31 May 1918
Alfalfa, ?? 27 April 1917
Alfred, 12 June 1917
Alfred H Read, 28 December 1917
Algarve, 20 October 1917
Algerian, 12 January 1916
Algiers, 26 February 1917
Alharna, 26 April 1917
Alice Marie, 19 December 1917
Alison, 28 November 1916
Allanton, 3 January 1918
Allendale, 27 March 1918
Allie, 5 January 1917
Almerian, 19 October 1918
Almond Branch, 27 November 1917
Almora, 2 October 1917
Alnwick Castle, 19 March 1917
Alster, 14 January 1918
Alto, 16 July 1916
Alwyn, 12 June 1917
Amakura, 12 June 1917
Amazon, 15 March 1918
Amber, 2 May 1917
Ambient, 12 March 1917
Ampleforth, 21 May 1917
Amplegarth, 10 May 1918
Amsteldam, 18 October 1917
Amsterdam, 24 February1918
Amulree, 24 April 1917
Anatolia, 25 June 1917
Andalusian, 12 March 1915
Andania, 27 January 1918
Andoni, 8 January 1917
Anglesea, 24 April 1917
Anglia, 17 November 1915
Anglian, 10 June 1917
Anglo-Canadian, 22 January 1918
Anglo-Colombian, 23 September 1915
Anglo-Patagonian, 6 July 1917
Angola, 5 May 1917
Angus, 11 April 1916
Anhui, 12 August 1918
Annapolis, 19 April 1917
Anna Sophie, 23 July 1918
Antaeus, 4 November 1917
Ant Caesar, 27 August 1918
Anteros, 24 March 1918
Antigua, 14 July 1916
Antinoe, 28 May 1917
Antiope, 9 August 1916
Antonio, 7 March 1917
Antony, 17 March 1917
Antwerpen, 18 November 1917
Apapa, 28 November 1917
Aparima, 19 November 1917
Apollo, 9 October 1915
Apostolos Andreas, 25 January 1918
Appledore, 9 June 1917
Apsleyhall, 30 December 1916
Aquila, 27 March 1915
Arab, 7 January 1918
Arabia, 6 November 1916
Arabian, 2 October 1915
Arabic, 19 August 1915
Arabis, 16 September 1917
Aragon, 30 December 1917
Aranmore, 21 March 1916
Arbonne, 25 February 1916
Arca, 2 October 1918
Arcadian, 15 April 1917
Archbank, 5 June 1918
Ardandearg, 14 March 1918
Ardbeg, 7 February 1918
Ardens, 18 August 1917
Ardgask, 3 April 1917
Ardglamis, 9 November 1917
Ardglass [778grt], 28 March 1917
Ardglass [4,617grt], 1 April 1918
Ardmount, 5 October 1914
Ardmore, 13 November 1917
Arendal, 18 September 1917
Arethusa, 23 April 1917
Argalia, 6 August 1917
Argo [1,720grt], 8 February 1916
Argo [3,071grt], 24 December 1917
Argyll, 13 April 1917
Ariadne, 15 January 1916
Ariel [86grt], 1 July 1917
Ariel [3,428grt], 3 October 1918
Aries, 25 February 1917
Armadale, 27 June 1917
Armenian, 28 June 1915
Armonia, 15 March 1918
Arndale, 11 June 1915
Arnewood, 13 December 1917
Aros Castle, 21 November 1917
Arrino, 1 February 1918
Artesia, 8 February 1918
Artist, 27 January 1917
Arum, 4 September 1918
Asaba, 6 December 1917
Ashburton, 1 April 1916
Ashleaf, 29 May 1917
Ashleigh, 23 July 1917
Ashmore, 12 September 1915
Asiatic Prince, 30 May 1918
Assyria, 26 August 1917
Astoria, 9 October 1916
Astrologer, 26 June 1916
Athenia, 16 August 1917
Athole, 26 April 1917
Atlantian, 25 June 1918
Atlas [989grt], 13 November 1917
Atlas [3,090grt], 14 February 1918
Aube, 3 August 1917
Auchencrag, 12 January 1917
Auckland Castle, 24 August 1918
Audax, 6 September 1918
Aulton, 23 March 1918
Aurania, 4 February 1918
Auriac, 23 April 1917
Ausonia, 30 May 1918
Australbush, 13 November 1917
Australdale, 19 October 1917
Australian Transport, 23 August 1918
Australier, 29 April 1918
Author, 13 January 1916
Autolycus, 12 April 1918
Ava, ?? January 1917
Avanti, 2 February 1918
Avocet, 19 April1917
Avon, 9 April 1916
Avristan, 7 December 1916
Axminster, 13 November 1917
Axwell, 13 November 1917
Ayesha, 9 November 1914
Aymeric, 30 May 1918
Ayr, 8 March 1918
Aysgarth, 14 June 1917
Aylevaroo, ? 7 October 1917
Azira, 4 August 1917
Azul, 5 February 1917
 
B

Badagri, 13 July 1918
Badger, 3 August 1916
Badminton, 23 July 1916
Bagdale, 1 May 1917
Baku Standard, 11 February 1918
Balakani, 9 September 1915
Baldanha, 18 March 1918
Baldersby, 28 September 1918
Balgownie, 6 February 1916
Balgray, 20 February 1918
Ballarat, 25 April 1917
Ballochbuie, 20 April 1917
Bamse [958grt], 17 April 1918
Bamse [1,001grt], 2 October 1918
Bandon, 13 April 1917
Bankfields, 25 September 1914
Bangarth, 13 December 1917
Ballogie, 9 November 1917
Barbara, 20 October 1916
Barbary, 12 November 1917
Bargany, 24 December 1916
Barnton, 24 April 1917
Baron Ailsa, 9 May 1918
Baron Balfour, 28 October 1917
Baron Blantyre, 3 October 1917
Baron Cawdor, 9 June 1917
Baron Erskine, 19 August 1915
Baron Garioch, 28 October 1917
Baron Herries, 22 April 1918
Baron Ogilvy, 27 June 1917
Baron Semphill, 16 January 1917
Baron Tweedmouth, 30 May 1916
Baron Vernon, 29 May 1916
Baron Wemyss, 7 March 1917
Baron Yarborough, 1 September 1916
Barrister [3,679grt], 11 May 1917
Barrister [4,952grt]., 19 September 1918
Barrowmore, 19 February 1918
Barunga, 15 July 1918
Basuta, 8 February 1918
Bathurst, 30 May 1917
Batoum, 19 June 1917
Baychattan, 11 October 1917
Baycraig, 1 January 1917
Baygitano, 18 March 1918
Bayhall, 17 December 1916
Baynaen, 25 March 1917
Baynesk, 9 January 1917
Baysoto, 6 August 1917
Bay State, 9 June 1917
Bayvoe, 9 January 1918
Beachy, 18 June 1916
Beacon Light, 19 February 1918
Beatrice, 20 July 1917
Beaufort, 6 January 1917
Beaumaris, 7 February 1918
Bedale, 6 October 1917
Beechtree, 10 February 1917
Beemah, 27 April 1917
Beechpark, 2 August 1917
Beeswing, 2 May 1917
Begonia, 21 March 1918
Begonia No 4, 27 July 1917
Begum, 29 May 1918
Behrend, 30 November 1916
Belford [516grt], 20 December 1915
Belford [1,905grt], 3 February 1917
Belgian, 24 May 1917
Belgian Prince, 31 July 1917
Belgier, 23 February 1917
Bellbank, 7 September 1918
Belle of England, 27 July 1917
Belle of France, 1 February 1916
Bellevue, 4 December 1914
Bellucia, 7 July 1917
Bellview, 21 April 1918
Benarthur, 8 August 1915
Ben Cruachan, 30 January 1915
Bendew, 4 April 1916
Bengairn, 1 April 1916
Bengali, 8 April 1918
Bengore Head, 20 June 1917
Bengrove, 7 March 1915
Benha [1,878grt], 11 June 1917
Benha [95grt], 28 September 1918
Benheather, 5 April 1917
Benita, 20 June 1917
Benito, 26 December 1917
Ben Lomond, 7 July 1918
Benmohr, 16 October 1914
Ben Rein, 7 February 1918
Benvorlich, 1 August 1915
Ben Vrackie, 19 August 1915
Beneficent, 24 February 1917
Berbera, 25 March 1917
Bernard, 15 December 1917
Bernicia, 13 November 1916
Bertrand, 6 July 1918
Berwick Law, 2 December 1917
Bessie Stephens, 14 February 1918
Bessy, 2 March 1918
Bethlehem, 19 April 1917
Bilswood, 12 March 1917
Birchgrove, 2 December 1917
Birchwood, 3 January 1918
Birdoswald, 26 June 1917
Birkhall, 23 January 1918
Birtley, 4 January 1918
Biruta, 6 August 1918
Bishopston, 4 September 1917
Bittern, 20 August 1915
Blairhall, 26 July 1918
Black Head, 21 June 1917
Blackwood, 9 March 1915
Blagdon, 9 August 1917
Blake, 24 July 1917
Bleamoor, 27 November 1917
Boaz, 31 March 1917
Boddam, 26 September 1916
Bogota, 10 November 1916
Boldwell, 27 May 1917
Boltonhall, 20 August 1918
Boma, 11 June 1918
Boniface, 23 August 1917
Bonney, 17 August 1915
Bontnewydd, 5 October 1917
Bonvilston, 17 October 1918
Border Knight, 4 November 1917
Borg, 10 June 1918
Borga, 1 March 1918
Boscastle, 7 April 1918
Boscawen, 21 August 1918
Boston City, 2 January 1918
Bostonian, 10 October 1917
Bowes Castle, 18 August 1914
Boyne Castle, 7 February 1917
Boynton, 24 September 1917
Braefield, 31 March 1917
Branksome Chine, 23 February 1915
Branksome Hall, 14 July 1918
Brantingham, 4 October 1916
Braunton, 7 April 1916
Bray Head, 14 March 1917
Bramham, 19 July 1917
Brandon, ?? March 1917
Brecknockshire, 15 February 1917
Brema, 19 August 1917
Brenda, 7 January 1917
Brentwood, 12 January 1917
Bretwalda, 13 December 1916
Brierdene, 1 December 1916
Brierley Hill, 1 November 1916
Brierton, 22 November 1916
Brigade, 19 February 1917
Brigitta, 4 December 1917
Brika, 13 March 1917
Brisbane River, 17 April 1917
Bristol City, 16 December 1917
Britannia [69grt], 6 September 1916
Britannia [1,814grt], 8 December 1916
Britannia [3,129grt], 2 April 1917
Britannia [765grt], ?19 October 1917
Britannic [3,487grt], 30 July 1916
Britannic [48,158grt], 21 November 1916
Britannic [92grt], 13 December 1917
British Monarch, 4 August 1917
British Sun, 1 May 1917
British Viscount, 23 February 1918
British Yeoman, 26 February 1917
Broderick, 29 April 1918
Brodmore, 27 February 1917
Brodness, 31 March 1917
Brodstone, 15 August 1917
Bronwen, 24 September 1916
Brookby, 19 June 1917
Brookwood, 10 January 1917
Broomhill, 10 May 1917
Brumaire, 24 July 1917
Brunhilda, 11 July 1917
Brussels, 23 June 1916
Buffalo [4,106grt], 18 June 1917
Buffalo [286grt], 13 September 1918
Bulgarian, 20 January 1917
Bullmouth, 28 April, 1917
Bulysses, 20 August 1917
Bunty, 21 October 1917
Burcombe, 1 December 1916
Buresk [4,337grt], 27 September 1914
Buresk [3,673grt], 5 November 1915
Burma, 23 June 1916
Burnby, 26 February 1917
Burnhope, 14 December 1916
Burnstone, 19 March 1918
Burrowa, 27 April 1917
Bursfield, 5 October 1915
Busiris, 9 December 1915
Butetown, 8 September 1916
Bylands, 1 October 1918
Bywell, 29 March 1917
 
C

Cabotia, 20 October 1916
Cade, 27 May 1915
Cadmus, 18 October 1917
Cairndhu, 15 April 1917
Cairngowan, 20 April 1916
Cairnhill, 17 April 1917
Cairnross, 27 May 1918
Cairnstrath, 4 August 1917
Cairntorr, 21 March 1915
Cairo [1,671grt], 13 August 1915
Cairo [254grt], 17 September 1918
Caithness, 19 April 1917
C A Jacques, 1 May 1917
Calchas, 11 May 1917
Caldergrove, 6 March 1917
Caledonia, 4 December 1916
California [8,669grt], 7 February 1917
California [5,629grt], 15 October 1917
Californian, 9 November 1915
Calliope [3,829grt], 5 April 1917
Calliope [2,883grt], ?14 July 1917
Calypso, 10 July 1916
Cambank, 20 February 1915
Camberwell, 18 May 1917
Cambrian Range, 9 December 1916
Cambric, 31 October 1917
Cameronia, 15 April 1917
Cameronian, 2 June 1917
Canadian, 5 April 1917
Candia, 27 July 1917
Candidate, 6 May 1915
Canford Chine, 24 June 1916
Canova, 24 December 1917
Cannizaro, 28 March 1917
Cape Antibes, 21 October 1915
Cape Finisterre, 2 November 1917
Capenor, 22 April 1917
Cardonia, 16 April 1916
Caria, 6 November 1915
Carisbrook, 21 June 1915
Carlisle Castle, 14 February 1918
Carlo, 13 November 1917
Carlton, 29 May 1918
Carlyle, 2 January 1917
Carmarthen, 26 July 1917
Carmelite, 2 March 1918
Carnmoney, 14 May 1917
Caroni, 7 September 1915
Carpathian, 17 July 1918
Carrabin, 1 October 1917
Carrie Hervey, 16 June 1917
Carterswell, 20 August 1915
Carthaginian, 14 June 1917
Caspian, 20 May 1917
Castillian, 18 April 1917
Castle Eden, 4 March 1918
Castleford, 14 March 1918
Castleton, 12July 1917
Caterham, 13 November 1916
Cattaro, 26 June 1917
Caucasian, 1 July 2015
Cavallo, 1 February 1918
Cavina, 1 June 1917
Cayo Bonito, 11 October 1917
Cecil L Shave, ? 1 March 1918
Cedarwood, 12 February 1916
CEGB, 18 May 1917
Celia, 2 February 1918
Centurion [5.945grt], 6 May 1915
Centurion [1,826grt], 19 February 1917
Cerne, 26 March 1916
Cervantes, 8 October 1914
Cestrian, 24 June 1917
Chagres, 10 March 1918
Chancellor, 23 September 1915
Chantala, 5 April 1916
Charcas, 5 December 1914
Charing Cross, 1 July 1918
Charles, 18 December 1917
Charles Goodanew, 17 April 1917
Charleston, 12 December 1917
Charterhouse, 23 September 1916
Chatburn, 1 March 1917
Chatham, 21 May 1918
Chelford, 14 April 1918
Cheltonian, 8 June 1917
Cherbury, 29 April 1915
Chertsey, 26 April 1917
Chesterfield, 18 May 1918
Cheviot Range, 21 February 1918
Chic, 13 April 1916
Chicago, 8 July 1918
Chilkana, 19 October 1914
Chirripo, 28 December 1917
Chloris, 27 July 1918
Chorley, 22 March 1917
Christabel, 30 November 1916
Christiana Davis, 29 April 1918
Chulmleigh, 14 September 1917
Churston, 3 September 1915
Cicilia, 12 February 1917
Cicero, ? 10 April 1918
Cito, 17 May 1917
City of Adelaide, 11 August 1918
City of Athens, 10 August 1917
City of Baroda, 4 June 1917
City of Birmingham, 27 November 1916
City of Bremen, 4 April 1915
City of Brisbane, 13 August 1918
City of Cambridge, 3 July 1917
City of Corinth, 21 May 1917
City of Florence, 20 July 1917
City of Ghent, 5 September 1916
City of Glasgow, 1 September 1918
City of Lucknow [3,677grt], 30 April 1916
City of Lucknow [8.293grt], 21 December 1917
City of Paris, 4 April 1917
City of Perth, 11 June 1917
City of Swansea, 25 September 1917
City of Winchester [6,601grt], 6 August 1914
City of Winchester [83grt], 28 March 1918
Cilburn, 20 October 1916
Cilurnum, 19 April 1917
Civilian, 6 October 1917
Clangula, 19 November 1917
Clan Alpine, 9 June 1917
Clan Cameron, 22 December 1917
Clan Campbell, 3 April 1916
Clan Davidson, 24 June 1917
Clan Farquhar, 26 February 1917
Clan Ferguson, 6 September 1917
Clan Forbes, 9 June 1918
Clan Grant, 16 October 1914
Clan Leslie, 4 November 1916
Clan Macalister, 6 November 1915
Clan Maccorquedale, 17 November 1917
Clan Macdougall, 15 March 1918
Clan Macfarlane, 30 December 1915
Clan Macintosh, 16 January 1916
Clan Macleod, 1 December 1915
Clan Macmillan, 23 March 1917
Clan Macnab, 4 August 1918
Clan Macneil, 6 August 1918
Clan Macpherson, 4 March 1918
Clan Macvey, 8 August 1918
Clan Matheson, 14 September 1914
Clan Murray, 29 May 1917
Clan Shaw, 23 January 1917
Clara, 28 December 1917
Claudia, 30 July 1916
Claverley, 20 August 1917
Cliftondale, 25 December 1917
Cliftonian, 6 February 1917
Clintonia, 1 August 2015
Clodmoor, 3 May 1917
Cluden, 22 October 1916
Clyde, 7 April 1916
Coalgas, 5 March 1918
Coath, 12 December 1916
Cober, 21 August 1915
Cock O' The Walk, 21 October 1916
Coila, 14 December 1917
Colchester, 22 September 1916
Coleby, 27 March 1915
Colemere, 22 December 1917
Colenso, 30 November 1915
Collegian, 20 October 1917
Colorado, 20 October 1917
Comedian, 29 April 1917
Commodore, 2 December 1915
Commonwealth, 19 February 1918
Conargo, 31 March 1918
Conch, 7 December 1916
Concord, 22 March 1915
Condesa, 7 July 1917
Condor, 11 October 1914
Coningbeg, ? 18 December 1917
Coniston Water, 21 July 1917
Connaught, 3 March 1917
Conoid, 29 March 1917
Conovium, 22 November 1917
Conrad, 12 December 1916
Consols, 8 December 1917
Constance Mary, 15 December 1916
Constantia, 8 May 1918
Conway, 30 April 1918
Conway Castle, 27 February 1915
Coonah, ?? March 1917
Cooroy, 29 August 1917
Copenhagen, 5 March 1917
Copeland, 2 December 1917
Copsewood, 27 December 1916
Coquet, 4 January 1916
Coral Leaf, 7 July 1917
Corbet Woodall, 30 May 1917
Corbridge, 11 January 1916
Cordova, 12 December 1917
Corfu, 17 April 1917
Corinth, 13 November 1916
Cork, 26 January 1918
Cormorant, 21 October 1914
Cornelia, 6 March 1917
Cornish City, 21 September 1914
Cornubia, 9 September 1915
Coronda, 13 March 1917
Corsham, 8 March 1918
Corsican Prince, 7 February 1917
Corso, 19 February 1917
Corton Light Vessel, 21 June 1916
Costello, 3 August 1915
Cotovia, 22 July 1917
Cottingham, 26 December 1915
Counsellor, 14 September 1916
Countess of Mar, 4 August 1917
Cragoswald, 18 April 1917
Craigard, 1 July 1915
Craigendoran, 3 March 1917
Craigston, 4 October 1915
Crayford, 13 March 1918
Cressida, 17 March 1918
Cresswell, 5 February 1918
Crispin, 29 March 1917
Crosshill, 11 October 1916
Crown of Arragon, 24 June 1917
Crown of Castile, 30 March 1915
Crown of India, 12 June 1915
Crown Point, 6 February 1917
Croxteth Hall, 17 November 1917
Cuba, 15 May 1917
Cumberland, 6 July 1917
Cupica, 19 October 1917
Cuyahoga, 5 July 1917
Cyfrarthfa, 11 April 1917
Cymbeline, 4 September 1915
Cymrian, 25 August 1917
Cymric, 8 May 1916
Cyrene, 5 April 1918
 
D

Dacia, 3 December 1916
Dafila, 21 July 1917
D A Gordon, 11 December 1917
Daleby, 29 April 1917
Dalegarth, 30 May 1916
Dalegarth Force, 18 April 1918
Dalewood, 26 February 1918
Dalton, 10 April 1917
Dana, 20 May 1917
Dantzic, 17 April 1917
Darius, 13 June 1917
Dart, 14 June 1917
Dartmoor, 27 May 1917
Dauntless, 4 February 1917
Dawdon, 3 October 1914
Daybreak, 24 December 1917
Dee, 30 March 1917
Delamere, 30 April 1917
Delphic, 16 August 1917
Demaris, 4 August 1916
Demeterton, 13 March 1917
Denaby, 24 February 1916
Denbigh Hasll, 18 May 1918
Denebola, 17 August 1918
Den of Crombie, 8 November 1915
Denewood, 26 May 1916
Dependence, 15 September 1917
Deptford, 24 February 1915
Derbent, 30 November 1917
Derrymore, 2 May 1917
Desabia, 12 June 1915
Destro, 25 March 1918
Detlef Wagner, 28 May 1917
Devonian, 21 August 1917
Dewa, 17 September 1916
Dewsland, 1 June 1916
Diadem [3,752grt], 23 February 1916
Diadem [4,307grt], 21 April 1917
Diana, 7 June 1918
Dictator [4,116grt], 5 September 1915
Dictator [99grt], ?27 June 1918
Dido, 26 February 1916
Dingle, 20 February 1916
Dinorwic, 15 July 1917
Diomed [4,672grt], 22 August 1915
Diomed [7,523grt], 21 August 1918
Diplomat, 13 September 1914
Dixiana, 29 May 1915
Djerv, 2 February 1918
Dolcoath, 10 May 1916
Dolly Varden, 14 November 1917
Don, 8 May 1915
Don Arturo, ? 25 June 1917
Don Diego, 21 May 1917
Don Emilio, 1 July 1917
Donegal, 17 April 1917
Dora, 1 May 1917
Dornfontein, 2 August 1918
Dorothy, 24 February 1917
Dorothy Duff, 16 May 1917
Dottorel, 29 November 1915
Douro, 5 September 1915
Dover Castle, 26 May 1917
Dowlais, 3 December 1917
Downshire [337grt], 20 February 1915
Downshire [368grt], 21 September 1918
Drake, 30 September 1917
Dramatist, 18 December 1916
Dresden, 23 September 1916
Drina, 1 March 1917
Dromonby, 13 January 1916
Dromore [4,398grt], 27 April 1917
Dromore [268grt], 18 May 1917
Drumcree, 18 May 1915
Drumloist, 24 June 1915
Drummuir, 2 December 1914
Dronning Maud, 22 April 1918
Duart, 31 August 1916
Duchess of Cornwall [152grt], 6 December 1916
Duchess of Cornwall [1,706grt], 11 April 1917
Duckbridge, 22 February 1916
Dudhope, 15 July 1917
Dulcie, 19 June 1915
Dulwich [3,289grt], 15 February 1915
Dulwich [1,460grt], 10 June 1917
Dumfries, 19 May 1915
Dumfriesshire, 28 June 1915
Dunbarmoor, 8 March 1917
Dundalk, 14 October 1918
Dundee, 31 January 1917
Dunmore Head, 27 April 1917
Dunnet Head, 4 June 1915
Dunrobin, 24 November 1917
Dunsley, 19 August 1915
Durango, 26 August 1917
Durward, 21 January 1915
Dux, 8 May 1918
Dwinsk, 18 June 1918
Dykland, 22 April 1917

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E

Eagle, 4 December 1917
Eagle Point, 28 March 1916
Earl of Elgin, 7 December 1917
Earl of Lathom, 5 May 1915
Eastfield, 27 November 1917
Eastlands, 25 January 1918
East Point, 9 March 1917
East Wales, 14 October 1917
Eastern Belle, 1 April 1917
Eastern City, 9 April 1916
Eastern Prince, 30 August 1917
Eavestone, 3 February 1917
Ebenezer, 15 July 1917
Ecclesia, 14 July 1916
Echunga, 5 September 1917
Edale, 1 May 1915
Eddie, 16 February 1917
Edernian, 20 August 1917
Edina, 17 August 1917
Edinburgh, 20 January 1916
Edith, 27 June 1915
Edlington, 23 September 1918
Eduard, 16 April 1917
Egyptiana, 9 June 1917
Egyptian Prince, 12 May 1917
Elax, 10 October 1916
Eleanor, 12 February 1918
El Argentino, 26 May 1916
Elba, 28 April 1918
Eldra, 19 October 1917
Elele, 18 June 1917
Elford, 18 May 1917
Elfrida, 7 January 1915
Eliza Ann, 17 March 1918
Elizabeth, 8 September 1917
Elizabeth Eleanor, 13 March 1917
Elizabeth Hampton, 14 May 1917
Ella Sayer, 29 April 1918
Ellaston [3,796grt], 3 April 1916
Ellaston [3,192grt], 16 March 1918
Ellen Harrison, 29 April 1917
Ellen James, 3 April 1917
Ellesmere, 9 July 1915
Elmgrove, 29 May 1916
Elmmoor, 23 May 1917
Elmsgarth, 29 September 1917
Eloby, 19 July 1917
Elsena, 22 November 1917
Elsie Birdett, ? 20 April 1918
Elsinore, 11 September 1914
Elsiston, 19 October 1917
Elswick Lodge, 20 august 1917
Elswick Manor, 19 April 1917
Elterwater, 16 December 1914
El Zorro, 28 December 1915
Embla, 24 December 1915
Embleton, 11 September 1917
Emilie, ? 10 April 1918
Emily Millington, 20 October 1918
Emlynverne, 25 November 1916
Emma [2,520grt], 20 April 1917
Emma [73grt], 5 September 1917
Empress, 31 July 1917
Empress of Fort William, 27 February 1916
Empress of Midland, 27 March 1916
Endymion, 30 March 1917
Energy, 15 September 1918
England, 23 May 1917
Englishman, 24 March 1916
English Monarch, 18 June 1917
Enidwen, 8 June 1917
Ennismore, 29 December 1917
Ennistown, 24 March 1917
Enosis, 18 November 1915
Eptalofos, 23 March 1917
Eptapyrgion, 23 April 1917
Eskmere, 13 October 1917
Era, 1 May 1918
Erato, 1 September 1917
Eretria, 13 May 1916
Erica, 8 March 1918
Eric Calvert, 22 April 1918
Erik, 25 August 1918
Erme, 2 July 1918
Ermenilda, 4 Augsut 1916
Erna Bolte, 9 June 1915
Ernest, 2 May 1917
Eros, 17 August 1918
Escrick, 16 August 1918
Eskimo, 26 July 1916
Esmereldas, 10 March 1917
Esneh, 31 May 1917
Essonite, 1 February 1917
Estrella, 5 March 1918
Estrellano, 31 October 1917
Etal Manor, 19 September 1917
Ethel [100grt], 26 April 1918
Ethel [2,336grt], 16 September 1918
Ethelbrythta, 30 July 1916
Ethelinda, 29 January 1918
Ethel Duncan, 18 October 1916
Ethiope, 28 May 1915
Etonian, 23 March 1918
Etton, 20 September 1916
Eudora, 14 February 1917
Eumaeus, 26 February 1918
Euphorbia [3,837grt], 16 July 1916
Euphorbia [3,109grt], 1 December 1917
Eupion, 3 October 1918
Euston, 24 October 1917
Euterpe, 7 January 1916
Eveline, 20 December 1917
Excellence Pleske, 31 March 1918
Excellent, 9 January 1917
Exchange, 23 March 1917
Exford, 14 July 1917
Express, 8 June 1915
Ezel, 8 September 1917
 
F

Fabian, 20 September 1917
Fairearn, 24 March 1917
Fairport, 15 April 1916
Falaba, 28 March 1915
Falcon, 24 February 1917
Fallodon, 28 December 1917
Farley, 14 May 1917
Farn, 19 November 1917
Farnham, 19 May 1917
Farraline, 2 November 1917
Farringford, 11 January 1916
Fastnet, 24 February 1916
Favonian, 4 August 1916
F D Lambert, 13 February 1917
Feliciana, 21 April 1916
Feltria, 5 May 1917
Fenay Bridge, 24 March 1916
Fenay Lodge, 6 March 1917
Ferga, 14 February 1917
Fern, 22 April 1918
Ferndene, 24 April 1917
Fernmoor, 17 April 1917
Ferrona, 28 October 1917
Ferryhill, 30 January 1918
Fingal, 15 March 1915
Firelight, 1 May 1917
Firfield, 16 July 1917
Firth, 25 July 1915
Fiscus, 20 December 1917
Fisherman, 16 July 1918
Flamenco, 6 February 1916
Flaminian, 29 March 1915
Flavia, 24 August 1918
Flawyl, 2 May 1918
Flimston, 18 December 1916
Florazan, 11 March 1915
Florence Louisa, 17 May 1917
Florence Muspratt, 5 September 1917
Florentia, 29 June 1918
Floridian, 4 February 1917
Florrieston, 20 April 1918
Fluent, 20 July 1917
Folia, 11 March 1917
Foreland, 12 February 1917
Forestmoor, 5 October 1917
Forfar, 4 December 1917
Fornebo, 17 June 1917
Formby, ?16 December 1917
Forth, 9 December 1916
Fortuna, 3 August 1916
Foyle, 27 September 1914
Foylemore, 16 December 1917
F Matarazzo, 15 November 1916
F Stobart, 11 August 1916
Framfield, 24 October 1916
Frances, 5 September 1917
Frances [56grt], 23 April 1918
Franconia, 4 October 1916
Franklyn, 2 May 1918
Franz Fischer, 1 February 1916
Frau Minna Petersen, 7 August 1914
Frederick Knight, 3 May 1917
Fremona, 31 July 1917
French Prince, 15 February 1917
French Rose, 24 November 1917
Freshfield, 5 August 1918
Friargate, 3 November 1915
Frimaire, 15 March 1917
Frinton, 19 March 1917
Fulgens, 1 August 1915
Fulgent, 30 April 1915
Fulmar, 24 March 1916
 
G

Gadsby, 1 July 1915
Gafsa [3,922grt], 16 June 1916
Gafsa [3,974grt], 28 March 1917
Galeka, 28 October 1916
Galgate, 6 May 1916
Galgorm Castle, 27 February 1917
Galicia [5,922grt], 12 May 1917
Galicia [1,400grt], 10 June 1917
Gallier, 2 January 1918
Galway Castle, 12 September 1918
Ganges, 30 July 1917
Gannet, 7 July 1916
Gardepee, 10 October 1916
Garfield, 15 January 1917
Garmoyle, 10 July 1917
Garron Head, 16 November 1917
Garthclyde, 15 October 1917
Garthwaite, 13 December 1917
Gartland, 3 January 1918
Gartness, 19 August 1917
Gasconia, 16 November 1917
Gascony, 5 Janaury 1918
Gauntlet, 18 June 1917
Gaupen, 12 March 1918
Gazelle, 2 March 1917
G A Savage, ?? March 1917
G C Bradwell, 2 August 1916
Gefion, 25 October 1917
Geilan Bari, 8 April 1917
Gem, 25 December 1914
Gemini, 20 July 1918
Gemma, 19 October 1917
Gena, 1 May 1917
General Laurie, 9 June 1917
Geo, 29 January 1918
George Pyrnan, 17 May 1917
George and Mary, 4 June 1915
Georgian, 8 March 1917
GeorgiosAntippa, 28 November 1917
Georgic, 10 December 1916
Ghazee, 4 February 1917
Gibel-Hamam, 14 September 1918
Gibel-Yedid, 13 July 1917
Gibraltar, 12 September 1917
Gippeswic, 31 March 1917
Giralda, 28 August 1918
Girdleness, 2 May 1918
Gisella, 18 November 1917
Gladiator, 19 August 1915
Gladys, 27 November 1917
Gladys Royle, 9 January 1917
Glaucus, 3 June 1918
Glanton, 18 October 1914
Glenalmond, 9 April 1916
Glenarm Head, 4 January 1918
Glenart Castle, 26 February 1918
Glenartney, 5 February 1918
Glenby, 17 August 1915
Glencarron, 19 February 1918
Glencliffe, 12 April 1917
Glencluny, 27 April 1917
Glencoe, 14 December 1916
Glenford, 20 March 1918
Glengyle, 1 January 1916
Glenholm, 21 May 1915
Glenlee [4,140grt], 29 May 1915
Glenlee [4,915grt], 9 August 1918
Glenlogan, 31 October 1916
Glenmoor, 6 November 1915
Glenogle, 27 March 1917
Glenravel, 8 August 1915
Glenstrae, 28 July 1917
Glen Tanar, 3 May 1917
Glitra, 20 October 1914
Glocliffe, 19 August 1917
Glow, 22 July 1917
Glynn, 5 September 1917
Glynymel, 12 March 1917
Goathland, 4 July 1917
Golconda, 3 June 1916
Gold Coast, 19 April 1917
Goldmouth, 31 March 1916
Good Hope [77grt], 27 April 1917
Good Hope [3,618grt], 19 October 1917
Goodwood, 21 August 1917
Gorsemoor, 22 September 1918
Governor, 14 March 1917
Gower Coast, ? 5 April 1917
Gowrie, 10 October 1917
Grace, 29 November 1916
Grangemoor, 20 July 1916
Grangewood, 25 July 1915
Grantley Hall, 23 December 1917
Gravine, 7 February 1917
Greatham, 22 January 1918
Greavesash, 26 February 1918
Greenbank, 3 June 1917
Greenland, 14 February 1917
Greenwich, 5 December 1917
Gregynog, 18 April 1918
Greldon, 8 October 1917
Greleen, 22 September 1917
Greltoria, 27 September 1917
Grelhame, 30 August 1917
Grenada, 22 November 1916
Grenadier, 23 February 1917
Gresham, 26 April 1918
Greta, 5 May 1917
Gretaston, ?? April 1917
Greypoint, 18 March 1917
Grit, 21 October 1916
Grodno, 12 August 1915
Groeswen, 27 November 1917
Groningen, 23 September 1915
Gryfevale, 21 October 1917
Guido, 8 July 1915
Guildhall, 25 June 1917

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H

H C Henry, 28 September 1915
Hadley, 27 December 1915
Haigh Hall, 30 June 1917
Haileybury, 22 February 1918
Halberdier, 6 Janaury 1918
Halcyon, 7 April 12916
Halizones, 7 October 1915
Hallamshire, 19 November 1915
Hamidieh, 13 October 1918
Hanley, 30 May 1917
Hanna Crossdell, 26 February 1917
Hanna Larsen, 8 February 1917
Harberton, ?? March 1917
Harbury, 9 June 1917
Hare, 14 December 1917
Harewood, 13 April 1918
Harfleet, 26 April 1917
Harlington, 9 December 1916
Harlyn, 9 December 1916
Harmattan, 5 May 1917
Harmatris, 8 March 1916
Harold, 21 July 1917
Harpagus, 9 May 1917
Harpalion, 24 February 1915
Harpalus, 2 December 1916
Harpalyce, 10 April 1915
Harpathian, 5 June 1918
Harriet Williams, 28 February 1917
Harrovian, 16 April 1916
Harrow, 8 September 1917
Harry W Adams, 24 December 1916
Hartburn, 15 October 1917
Hartdale, 13 March 1915
Hartley, 26 January 1918
Harvest Home, 28 March 1917
Haslingden, 12 May 1918
Hatasu, 27 September 1918
Hathor, 26 August 1917
Haulwen, 9 June 1917
Hawanee, 8 October 1918
Haworth, 17 July 1917
Haydn, 29 September 1915
Hazelpark, 20 March 1917
Hazelwood, 18 October 1917
Headlands, 12 March 1915
Headley, 19 February 1917
Heathdene, 7 September 1916
Heatherside, ? 24 August 1917
Heathfield, 25 April 1917
Hebble, 6 May 1917
Hebburn, 25 September 1918
Heighington, 1 August 1916
Heinrich, 30 November 1916
Helen, 1 May 1917
Helmsmuir, 3 December 1915
Hemisphere, 26 December 1914
Hendonhall, 1 May 1916
Henley, 10 April 1918
Henry R James, 16 July 1917
Hercules [1,295grt], 30 December 1917
Hercules [1,095grt], 25 March 1918
Herdis, 29 June 1918
Hermione, 14 April 1917
Hero, 28 March 1917
Heron, 30 September 1917
Heron Bridge, 16 May 1918
Herrington, 4 May 1917
Hesione, 23 September 1915
Hesperian, 4 September 1915
Hesperides, 25 April 1917
Hidalgo, 28 August 1917
Highcliffe, 3 September 1918
Highgate, 7 December 1917
Highland Brae, 14 January 1915
Highland Brigade, 7 April 1918
Highland Corrie, 16 May 1917
Highland Harris, 6 August 1918
Highland Hope, 14 September 1914
Highland Prince, 11 April 1918
Hilda Lea, 23 December 1917
Hilda R, 5 November 1917
Hildawell, 20 December 1916
Hinemua, 7 September 1917
Hindustan, 21 March 1917
Hirondelle, 25 April 1917
HMW, 10 November 1916
Hogarth, 7 June 1918
Holgate, 27 March 1917
Hollington, 2 June 1917
Hollinside, 3 February 1917
Hollybranch, 1 January 1917
Holmsbank, 26 May 1917
Holmwood, 26 August 1914
Honiton, 30 August 1915
Hopemoor, 14 February 1917
Hopemount, 13 June 1915
Horace, 9 February 1916
Horden, 20 September 1915
Hornchurch, 3 August 1917
Horngarth, 11 March 1917
Hornsund, 23 September 1917
Horsa, 30 April 1917
Howe, 24 March 1917
Howth Head, 19 April 1917
HS3, 12 September 1917
HS 4, 21 August 1917
Hudworth, 6 January 1917
Huelva, 23 July 1917
Huguenot, 20 October 1916
Humber, 25 January 1918
Hungerford, 16 April 1918
Hunsbridge, 7 September 1917
Hunsdon, 18 October 1918
Hunsgrove, 8 June 1918
Huntleys, 25 March 1917
Huntsfall, 2 October 1916
Huntsland, 6 June 1918
Huntsman, 25 February 1917
Huntsmoor, 20 February 1918
Huntsolm, 11 June 1917
Huntstrick, 8 June 1917
Huntsvale, 4 November 1916
Huntly, 20 December 1915
Hunstanton, 4 April 1917
Hurst, 3 October 1917
Hurstdale, 23 October 1914
Hurstside, 4 July 1917
Hurstwood, 5 February 1917
Hurunui, 18 May 1918
Hyades, 15 August 1914
Hylass, 15 August 1917
Hyperia, 28 July 1918
 
I

Iberian, 30 July 1915
Iceland, 3 July 1917
Ida Duncan, 31 January 1917
Idaho, 19 August 1918
Ignis, 8 December 1915
Ikalis, 7 June 1917
Ikaria, 30 January 1915
Ikbal, 29 April 1917
Ikeda, 21 March 1918
Ilaro, 23 October 1915
Ilderton, 24 October 1917
Ilston, 30 June 1917
Ilvington Court, 6 December 1917
Imataka, 23 April 1917
Imperial, 8 August 1916
Imperial Transport, 11 April 1917
Indian City, 12 March 1915
Indian Prince, 4 September 1914
Indrani [5,706grt], 17 September 1914
Indrani [3,640grt], 27 June 1915
Indus, 10 September 1914
Industrial, 4 October 1918
Industry [4,044grt], 27 April 1916
Industry [91grt], 5 September 1917
Inglemoor, 1 July 2015
Inishowen Head, 14 February 1917
Incemore, 20 August 1917
Ingleside, 8 May 1918
Inkosi, 28 March 1918
Inkum, 4 June 1915
Inniscarra, 12 May 1918
Innisfallen, 23 May 1918
Intent, 8 March 1918
Inverbervie, 14 September 1916
Invercauld, 22 February 1917
Invercoe, 12 February 1915
Invergyle, 12 March 1915
Inverlogie, 9 March 1917
Inverlyon, 11 April 1916
Invermay, 25 April 1917
Iolo [3,903grt], 11 October 1916
Iolo [3,840grt], 17 February 1917
Iolanthe, 4 January 1918
Iona, 3 June 1915
Ionian, 20 October 1917
Iran, 7 August 1917
Irene, 9 November 1915
Iris, ? 8 May 1917
Iriston, 24 September 1917
Irthington, 23 September 1917
Iser, 23 February 1917
Islandmore, 3 June 1917
Isle of Arran, 2 February 1917
Isle of Hastings, 5 October 1916
Isle of Jura, 8 June 1917
Isleworth, 30 April 1918
Istrar, 2 December 1916
Italiana, 14 September 1916
Itinda, 10 May 1918
Itonus, 20 December 1916
Ivernia, 1 January 1917
Ivydene, 17 March 1918
 
J

Jacona, 12 August 1915
Jaffa, 2 February 1918
James Burton, 10 March 1917
Jane Gray, 23 March 1918
Jane Radcliffe, 28 November 1917
Jane Williamson, 10 September 1917
Japanese Prince, 10 February 1917
Jean, 30 December 1915
Jersey City, 24 May 1917
Jerseyman, 24 November 1916
Jessie [108grt], 27 April 1917
Jessie [2,256grt], 16 June 1917
Jessie [332grt], 2 November 1917
Jessmore, 13 May 1917
Jevington, 23 January 1917
Jewel, 19 April 1917
Jonathan Holt, 7 June 1917
John H Barry, 18 March 1918
John Hardie, 6 September 1915
John Miles, 22 February 1917
John Pritchard, 30 March 1916
John W Pearn, 1 May 1917
John O Scott, 18 September 1918
John J Walter, 24 March 1918
Johnny Toole, 29 April 1918
Jorgina, 24 March 1918
Jose de Larrinaga, 28 April 1917
Joseph, 4 May 1917
Joseph Chamberlain, 18 September 1917
Joseph Fisher, 15 September 1918
Joshua, ? 12 October 1917
Joshua Nicholson, 18 March 1917
Julia Park, 30 May 1916
Jumna, 1 March 1917
Juno, 2 May 1917
Jupiter, 21 May 1917
Justicia, 19 July 1918
Jutland, 19 November 1917
J Y Short, 4 October 1916
 
K

Kafue, 30 April 1918
Kaipara, 16 August 1914
Kalgan, 6 March 1918
Kalibia, 30 November 1917
Kallundborg, 5 June 1917
Kalo, 13 June 1918
Kangaroo, 18 June 1917
Kankakee, 14 June 1917
Kapunda, 12 November 1916
Kara, 10 July 1916
Karema, 25 November 1917
Kariba, 13 April 1917
Karina, 1 August 1917
Karma, 20 July 1916
Karronga, 29 April 1917
Karuma, 27 April 1917
Kasenga, 1 April 1917
Kassanga, 20 March 1918
Kassid Karim, 4 October 1918
Kate & Annie, 19 June 1917
Katherine, 23 February 1917
Kathleen, 5 August 1917
Kathleen Lily, 29 March 1917
Keelung, 27 June 1918
Keeper, ? 10 June 1917
Kelso, 19 June 1917
Kelvinhead, 27 March 1917
Kelvinbank [4,209grt], 22 March 1916
Kelvinbank [4,072 gt], 13 June 1917
Kelvinia, 2 September 1916
Kempock, 30 April 1918
Kendal Castle, 15 September 1918
Kenilworth, 24 April 1917
Kenmare, 2 March 1918
Kenmore, 26 August 1917
Kennet, 22 September 1916
Kennington, 12 June 1918
Khartoum, 27 November 1914
Khephren, 16 July 1917
Kia Ora, 8 February 1918
Kilbride, 1 March 1916
Kilcoan, 30 January 1915
Kildale, 12 April 1917
Kildalton, 12 December 1914
Kildonan, 29 September 1917
Kieldrecht, 15 June 1918
Killarney, 8 May 1917
Killellan, 8 November 1916
Killin, 13 September 1914
Kilmaho, 16 May 1917
Kilwinning, 24 August 1917
Kincardine, 3 March 1917
Kindly Light, 1 February 1918
King Bleddyn, 1 December 1916
King David, 10 July 1917
King George, 8 December 1916
King Idwal, 22 November 1917
King Lud, 25 September 1914
King Malcolm, 28 November 1916
Kingsdyke, 17 January 1918
Kingstonian, 29 April 1918
Kingsway, 27 November 1915
Kinpurney, 15 January 1917
Kinross, 7 May 1917
Kintuck, 2 December 1917
Kioto, 11 July 1917
Kirkby, 17 August 1915
Kirkham Abbey, 27 July 1918
Kish, 17 April 1917
Kittiwake, 9 April 1917
Knarsdale, 21 December 1915
Knightsbridge, 5 January 1918
Knutsford, 22 July 1916
Kohinur, 25 May 1917
Kohistan, 22 November 1917
Kosseir, 20 July 1918
Kurdistan, 20 September 1917
Kul, 12 June 1918
Kut Sang, 29 April 1918
Kwasind, 11 March 1917
Kyanite, 15 February 1917
Kyarra, 26 May 1918
Kymo, 16 November 1917
 
L

Laconia, 25 February 1917
La Blanca, 23 November 1917
La Correntina, 7 October 1914
La Negra, 3 September 1917
Ladoga, 16 April 1918
Lady Ann, 16 February 1917
Lady Carrington, 12 November 1916
Lady Cory-Wright, 26 March 191
Lady Helen, 27 October 1917
Lady Ninian, 28 May 1916
Lady Salisbury, 9 June 1915
Lady of the Lake [79grt], 28 November 1916
Lady of the Lake [51grt], 30 June 1917
Ladywood, 1 May 1917
Laertes, 1 August 1917
Lake Michigan, 16 April 1918
Lampada, 8 December 1917
Landonia, 21 April 191
Lanfranc, 17 April 1917
Langton Hall, 30 November 1915
Lanterna, 6 October 1916
Lanthorn, 22 May 1917
Lapwing, 11 October 1917
Larchmore, 3 July 1915
Largo, 27 February 1918
Laristan, 4 September 1916
Laura [335grt], 25 April 1917
Laura [86grt], 8 September 1917
Laura Ann, 5 June 1917
Laurium, 23 April 1918
Lavernock, 17 September 1918
Lavinia Westoll, 28 March 1916
L C Tower, 1 July 1915
Leasowe Castle, 26 May 1918
Ledbury, 26 March 1917
Leeuwarden, 17 March 1915
Leeds City, 6 May 1918
Leicester, 12 February 1916
Leinster, 10 October 1918
Lena, ? 18 April 1917
Leonatus, 12 December 1917
Lesbian, 5 January 1917
Lesto, 23 May 1917
Lestris, 5 July 1916
Leuctra, 12 June 1915
Leven, 15 February 1917
Lewisham, ? 14 May 1917
Lexie, 10 September 1916
L H Carl, 20 July 1917
Libourne, 29 September 1918
Lightfoot, 16 March 1918
Lilian H, 19 January 1917
Limasol, 11 May 1917
Limesfield, 7 February 1918
Linaria, 26 December 1914
Lincairn, 27 May 1916
Lincolnshire, 29 March 1917
Linda Blanche, 30 January 1915
Linkmoor, 20 September 1915
Limerick, 28 May 1917
Lisbon, 30 May 1917
Lisette, 13 March 1918
Lismore, 12 April 1917
Little Gem, 13 December 1917
Little Mystery, 30 April 1917
Liverpool, 19 December 1916
Livonia, 3 December 1917
Lizzie Ellen, 28 June 1917
Lizzie Westoll, 17 June 1917
Llancarvan, 16 May 1918
Llandrindod, 18 May 1917
Llandovery Castle, 27 June 1918
Llandudno, 1 August 1917
Llanishen, 8 August 1917
Llangorse, 8 September 1916
Llongwen, 18 July 1916
Llwyngwar, 26 April 1918
Longhirst, 23 February 1917
Locksley Hall, 12 May 1917
Lochwood, 2 April 1915
Lodes, 5 May 1917
Lofoten, 3 February 1918
Lomas, 30 June 1915
Lonada, 29 December 1916
Lonclara, 4 January 1917
Longbenton, 27 June 1917
Longscar, 14 February 1917
Lonhelen, 12 April 1918
Lord Charlemont, 19 April 1918
Lord Derby, 28 December 1917
Lord Roberts, 21 June 1917
Lord Stewart, 16 September 1918
Lord Tredegar, 17 September 1916
Lorie, 11 June 1918
Lornion, 23 June 1918
Lotusmere, 2 October 1916
Louise Bell, 26 January 1918
Lough Fisher, 30 March 1918
Lovat, 11 September 1914
Lowdale, 29 April 1917
Lowlands, 18 March 1916
Lowmount, 7 May 1917
Lowther Range, 20 April 1918
Lowtyne, 10 June 1918
Lucena, 27 June 1915
Lucent, 12 February 1917
Luciston, 29 November 1916
Lucy Anderson, 12 March 1917
Ludgate, 26 July 1917
Ludovicos, 1 October 1917
Lugano, 2 October 1917
Luis, 12 April 1918
Lullington, 8 February 1917
Lumina, 6 November 1915
Lundy Island, 10 January 1917
Lusitania [30,396grt], 7 May 1915
Lusitania [1,834grt], 17 November 1915
Lux, ?? January 1917
Luxor, 19 March 1918
Luxembourg, 11 September 1917
Luz Blanco, 5 August 1918
LV, 13 February 1917
Lycia, 11 February 1917
Lydie, 9 February 1918
Lynburn, 29 August 1917
Lynfield, 8 January 1917
Lynorta, 11 August 1917
Lynrowan, 7 October 1914
 
M

Mabel Baird, 22 December 1917
Machaon, 27 February 1918
Madam Midas [ex-Duva], 23 March 1918
Madam Renee, 10 August 1918
Madeline, 8 March 1918
Madryn, 16 September 1918
Magellan, 25 July 1918
Maggie [269grt], 17 August 1915
Maggie [1,802grt], 24 June 1917
Maid of Harlech, 4 February 1918
Main, 9 October 1917
Maindy Bridge, 8 December 1917
Maine, 23 March 1917
Maizar, 30 January 1918
Majura, 18 October 1917
Maltby, 26 February 1918
Maloja, 27 February 1916
Malachite, 23 November 1914
Malakand, 20 April 1917
Malda, 25 August 1917
Malinehe, 29 November 1915
Malvina, 2 August 1918
Manchester Citizen, 26 April 1917
Manchester Commerce [5,363grt], 27 October 1914
Manchester Commerce [4,144grt], 29 July 1917
Manchester Engineer [4,302grt], 27 March 1916
Manchester Engineer [4,465grt], 16 August 1917
Manchester Inventor [4,247grt], 18 January 1917
Manchester Inventor [4,112grt], 30 July 1917
Manchester Miller, 5 June 1917
Manchester Spinner, 22 January 1918
Manchester Trader, 4 June 1917
Manchuria, 17 October 1917
Mangara, 28 July 1915
Manistee, 26 June 1917
Mantola, 8 February 1917
Maple Branch, 3 September 1914
Maple Wood, 7 April 1917
Marere, 18 January 1916
Marga, 10 November 1916
Margam Abbey, 10 April 1916
Margaret Sutton, 2 August 1916
Maria, 13 April 1917
Marie Elsie, 10 June 1917
Maria P, 18 January 1918
Marie Suzanne, 19 August 1918
Marina, 28 October 1916
Mariston, 15 July 1917
Marjorie, 9 June 1917
Marden, 16 April 1917
Mardinian, 19 May 1917
Marie Leonhardt, 14 February 1917
Margarita, 14 February 1917
Margit, 4 April 1917
Marion Dawson, 14 February 1917
Marmion, 26 August 1917
Marquette, 23 October 1915
Marquis Bacquehem, 29 October 1916
Mars, 8 July 1918
Marstonmoor, 14 April 1918
Martha Edmonds, 20 August 1915
Martin, 14 January 1917
Mary Ada Short, 16 February 1915
Mary Annie, 25 March 1917
Mary Baird, 18 May 1917
Mary Orr, 10 September 1917
Mary Seymour, 10 September 1917
Mascota, 29 March 1917
Mascotte, 3 September 1916
Mashalla, 22 April 1918
Mashobra, 15 April 1917
Maston, 13 August 1917
Massouda, 11 May 1918
Masunda, 28 February 1916
Matador, 3 July 1917
Matheran, 26 January 1917
Matiana, 1 May 1918
Matunga, 6 August 1917
Maud, 1 May 1916
Maude, 7 May 1917
Maude Lawson, 27 November 1916
Mavisbrook, 17 May 1918
Maxton, 28 December 1917
Mayola, 16 February 1917
Maywood, 30 September 1916
McClure, 24 May 1917
Meadowfield, 9 July 1915
Mechanician, 20 January 1918
Medina, 28 April 1917
Mediterranean, 10 March 1917
Medora, 2 May 1918
Melanie, 16 June 1918
Meldon, 3 March 1917
Melford Hall, 22 June 1917
Membland, 15 February 1915
Memling, 3 October 1917
Memnon, 12 March 1917
Memphian, 8 October 1917
Menzaleh, 5 June 1918
Mercurius, 28 June 1916
Merganser, 20 November 1915
Merionith, 3 June 1917
Merionithshire, 27 May 1918
Mermaid, 29 April 1917
Mersario, 1 October 1917
Meroe, 29 October 1916
Merton Hall, 11 February 1918
Mesaba, 1 September 1918
Messidor, 23 July 1918
Mexico City, 5 February 1918
Miami, 22 June 1917
Middlesex, 16 May 1917
Middleton, 30 November 1915
Midland, 20 October 1916
Midland Queen, 4 August 1915
Midlothian, 30 September 1917
Mientji, 20 May 1917
Millicent Knight, 18 May 1917
Milly, 6 September 1918
Milwaukee, 31 August 1918
Mimosa, 4 September 1915
Minas Queen, 26 August 1917
Minieh, 9 January 1917
Miniota, 31 August 1917
Minneapolis, 23 March 1916
Minnehaha, 7 September 1917
Minnetonka, 30 Janaury 1918
Minnewaska, 29 November 1916
Minnie Coles, 19 November 1917
Minorea, 11 December 1917
Minterne, 3 May 1915
Mira, 11 October 1917
Mirlo, 16 August 1918
Missair, 29 May 1918
Missanabie, 9 September 1918
Miss Morris, 11 April 1917
Mizpah, 3 December 1916
M J Craig, 13 September 1918
Mobile, 28 April 1915
Moeris, 30 June 1916
Mohacsfield, 7 January 1917
Moidart, 9 June 1918
Molesley, 1 December 1917
Mombassa, 20 October 1916
Monarsh, 8 September 1915
Mongara, 3 July 1917
Mongolia, 24 June 1917
Mongolian, 21 July 1918
Monitor, 26 April 1917
Monksgarth, 19 August 1917
Monkstone, 25 July 1917
Monitoria, 21 October 1915
Montebello, 21 June 1918
Montfort, 1 October 1918
Mooltan, 26 July 1917
Moorina, 5 November 1915
Moorlands, 24 June 1918
Moorside, 12 November 1915
Mopsa, 16 July 1916
Mora, 8 September 1915
Morazan, 11 November 1916
Mordenwood, 19 May 1917
Moresby, 28 November 1916
Morion, 2 May 1917
Morning Star, 12 November 1917
Morwenna, 26 May 1915
Moscow, 21 October 1918
Moss Rose, 10 September 1917
Mountby, 10 June 1918
Mount Coniston, 5 August 1916
Mount Temple, 6 December 1916
Moyune, 12 April 1918
Muirfield, 11 July 1917
Muriel, 17 September 1918
Munificent, 1 March 1917
Murcia, 2 November 1918
Murex, 21 December 1916
Myrtle Branch, 11 April 1918
 
N

Nailsea Court, 19 January 1917
Naiad, 15 December 1916
Nairn, 27 August 1917
Namur, 29 October 1917
Nanny Wignall, 9 March 1918
Nantes, 7 May 1918
Narrangansett, 16 March 1917
Nascent, 25 August 1917
Natal Transport, 4 September 1915
Neath, 27 March 1917
Neepawah, 22 April 1917
Nentmoor, 20 April 1917
Neotsfield [1,875grt], 26 June 1917
Neotsfield [3,821grt], 14 September 1918
Neuquen, 20 January 1917
Ness, 25 October 1917
Netherby Hall, 10 January 1917
Netherlee, 11 February 1917
Netherton, 18 February 1917
Netta, 3 September 1916
Nevisbrook, 20 July 1917
Newburn, 7 August 1916
Newby, 26 September 1916
Newcastle, 10 October 1915
New Design No 2, 4 May 1917
Newholm, 8 September 1917
Newlyn, 2 August 1917
Newminster Abbey, 2 February 1918
Newstead, 3 March 1917
New York City, 19 August 1915
New Zealand Transport 14 June 1917,
Niceto de Larrinaga, 6 October 1914
Nigel, 12 November 1915
Ninetta, 18 May 1918
Nirpura, 16 April 1918
Nora, 3 June 1918
Norfolk Coast, 18 June 1918
Norhilda, 21 August 1917
Norma Pratt, 16 March 1917
Normandiet, 21 April 1918
Normandy, 25 Janaury 1918
Normanton, 1 October 1917
Northfield, 3 March 1918
Northlands, 5 April 1915
North Sea, 31 October 1917
Northville, 17 February 1918
North Wales [3,661grt], 16 November 1914
North Wales [4,072grt], ?? October 1916
Northwaite, 13 March 1917
Norwegian, 13 March 1917
Norwood, ?? February 1917
Nostra Signora del Porto Salvo, 22 February 1917
Novocastrian, 5 October 1915
Noya, 30 August 1917
Nuceria, 2 October 1917
Nugget, 31 July 1915
Nyanga, 16 August 1914
Nyanza, 29 September 1918
Nyassa, 24 November 1917
 
O

Oak, 23 February 1915
Oakleaf, 25 July 1917
Oakwell, 28 March 1917
Oakwood, 11 August 1915
Obsidian, ? 10 April 1918
Obuasi, 8 July 1917
Ocean, 23 November 1917
Ocean Swell, 5 July 1917
Okement, 17 February 1917
Okhla, 29 July 1917
Oilfield, 16 March 1918
Oldfield Grange, 11 December 1917
Olive, 22 July 1916
Olive Branch, 2 September 1917
Olivia, 11 February 1917
Olivine, 4 April 1915
Omrah, 12 May 1918
Oola, 26 October 1916
Oopack, 4 October 1918
Opal, 18 December 1916
Orange Prince, 15 November 1915
Orator, 8 June 1917
Orfordness, 20 July 1918
Oriflamme, 25 November 1917
Origen, 30 June 1918
Orissa, 25 June 1918
Oriole, 30 January 1915
Orlock Head, 12 April 1916
Oronsa, 28 April 1918
Oronsay, 28 December 1916
Orteric, 9 December 1915
Ortolan, 14 June 1917
Ortona, 21 June 1917
Orubian, 31 July 1917
Oslo, 21 August 1917
Osmanieh, 31 December 1917
Osprey, 12 August 1915
Ostpreussen, 25 November 1917
Oswald, 23 April 1917
Oswego, 29 May 1917
Otaki, 10 March 1917
Otis Tetrax, 20 August 1918
Otto, 4 Janaury 1918
Ovid, 25 November 1917

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P

Paddington, 21 July 1917
Pagenturm, 16 May 1917
Paignton, 14 March 1917
Palacine, 2 December 1916
Palatine, 16 August 1917
Palmella, 22 August 1918
Palmgrove, 22 August 1915
Palmleaf, 4 February 1917
Parisiana, 23 April 1916
Parkmill, 10 September 1917
Paros, 17 August 1915
Pascal, 17 December 1916
Pasha, 15 June 1917
Parkgate, 4 April 1917
Patagonia, 15 September 1915
Patagonier, 14 April 1917
Parthenia, 6 June 1917
Pearl [613grt], 23 September 1916
Pearl [144grt], 30 September 1916
Peebles, 13 October 1917
Peerless, 4 September 1917
Pegu, 8 July 1917
Pelham, 13 June 1915
Pendennis, 8 July 1916
Penelope, 24 August 1917
Penhale, 18 May 1917
Penhallow, 12 June 1918
Peninsula, 25 July 1917
Penistone, 11 August 1918
Penpol, 19 June 1917
Pentyrch, 18 April 1918
Penvean, 1 March 1918
Pentwyn, 16 October 1918
Pentyrch, 18 April 1918
Penylan, 19 October 1916
Pera, 19 October 1917
Perce, 28 January 1917
Percy B, 29 September 1917
Percy Roy, 13 February 1917
Perla, 10 June 1917
Perriton, 29 January 1918
Perserverance, 23 September 1917
Perseus, 21 February 1917
Persia, 30 December 1915
Persier, 11 December 1917
Perth, 1 April 1916
Peshawur, 9 October 1917
Petridge, 8 April 1917
Petunia, 8 May 1917
Phantom, 8 June 1917
Phare, 31 October 1917
Phemius, 4 June 1917
Philadelphian, 19 February 1918
Philomel, 16 September 1918
Pilar de Larrinaga, 4 May 1917
Pinegrove, 11 December 1915
Pinewood, 17 February 1918
Pinmore, 19 February 1917
Pitho, 28 December 1916
Planudes, ?? January 1917
Plawsworth, 13 July 1918
Pluto, 10 April 1917
Plutus, 24 April 1917
Pola, 18 March 1917
Polamhall, 7 May 1917
Polanna, 6 August 1917
Polar Prince, 18 September 1917
Polbrae, 4 May 1918
Poldown, 9 October 1917
Poledn, 14 November 1916
Polesley, 21 September 1918
Polijames, 2 October 1918
Politania, 18 August 1917
Polleon, 22 March 1918
Polo, 12 February 1918
Poltava, 19 April 1917
Polvana, 17 October 1917
Polvarth, 20 December 1917
Polwell, 5 June 1918
Polymnia, 15 May 1917
Polyxena, 11 June 1917
Pomeranian, 15 April 1918
Ponrabbel, 16 October 1914
Pontiac [1,698grt], 21 April 1917
Pontiac [3,345grt], 28 April 1917
Pontypridd, 12 March 1917
Port Adelaide, 3 February 1917
Port Campbell, 7 April 1918
Port Curtis, 7 August 1917
Port Dalhousie, 19 March 1916
Port Hardy, 6 July 1918
Port Jackson, 28 April 1917
Port Kembla, 18 September 1917
Port Nicholson, 15 January 1917
Porthkerry, 18 May 1917
Portia, 2 August 1915
Portloe, 20 April 1917
Potaro, 10 January 1915
Powhatan, 6 April 1917
Presto, 6 April 1917
Primo [1,366grt], 26 November 1914
Primo [1,037grt], 18 September 1918
Primrose, 31 March 1917
Prince Abbas, 9 July 1917
Princess Caroline, 13 August 1915
Princess Dagmar, ? 7 May 1918
Princess Mary, 21 October 1916
Princess Maud, 10 June 1918
Princess Olga, 16 December 1914
Princess Royal, 26 May 1918
Princess Victoria, 9 March 1915
Proba, 7 December 1917
Prophet, 14 November 1917
Protector, 31 December 1916
Providence, 22 March 1917
Prunella, 22 August 1918
Pruth, 9 October 1914
Ptarmigan, 15 April 1915
Purley, 25 July 1917
Pundit, 9 June 1918
 
Q

Quaggy, 11 April 1917
Queen, 28 June 1918
Queenswood, 16 February 1917
Queen Adelaide, 18 June 1917
Queen Amelie, 17 September 1917
Queen Eugenie, 25 March 1917
Queen Mary, 16 April 1917
Queen Victoria, 9 June 1918
Queen Wilhelmina, 8 May 1915
Quernmore, 31 July 1917
 
R

Radnorshire, 7 January 1917
Ragnhild, 3 September 1917
Rallus, 27 September 1916
Raloo, 17 June 1917
Ramanzan, 19 September 1915
Ramsgarth, 28 November 1916
Ramillies, 21 July 1917
Ranger, 19 July 1918
Ranza, 1 August 1915
Rapallo, 13 Janaury 1918
Rappahannock, 26 October 1916
Ravenhill, 18 April 1916
Ravensbourne, 31 January 1917
Reapwell, 27 November 1916
Redesmere, 28 October 1917
Refugio, 12 May 1917
Remus, 23 February 1918
Renfrew [3,488grt], 3 July 1915
Renfrew [3,830grt], 24 February 1918
Repton, 7 May 1917
Restormel, 19 August 1915
Reventazon, 5 October 1918
Rewa, 4 January 1918
Rhem, 22 June 1918
Rhenass, 22 May 1916
Rhineland, 11 November 1915
Rhodesia, 11 October 1917
Rhona, 27 November 1916
Rhydwen, 18 April 1917
Ribera [3,500grt], 27 September 1914
Ribera [3,511grt], 10 June 1917
Ribston [3,048grt], 23 April 1916
Ribston [3,372grt], 16 July 1917
Richard de Larrinaga, 8 October 1917
Richmond, 1 July 1915
Rievaulx Abbey, 3 September 1916
Rinaldo, 18 April 1917
Rio Claro, 5 Janaury 1918
Rio Colorado, 22 March 1917
Rio Iguassu, 22 September 1914
Rio Pallarsea, 29 July 1918
Rio Parana, 24 February 1915
Rio Pirahy, 28 October 1916
Rio Sorocaba, 21 March 1917
Rio Tiete, 28 March 1916
Rio Verde, 21 February 1918
Riversdale, 18 December 1917
River Forth, 3 March 1917
Roanoke, 12 August 1917
Rob Roy, 26 January 1918
Robert Adamson, 10 April 1916
Robert Brown, 19 November 1917
Robert Eggleton, 28 December 1917
Robert Morris, 20 November 1917
Rochester Castle, 16 April 1917
Rochester City, 2 May 1916
Rockcliff, 2 July 1916
Rockpool, 2 March 1918
Rodanthe, 4 March 1917
Rollesby, 15 September 1917
Roma, 30 November 1916
Romany, 27 April 1918
Romeo, 3 March 1918
Romford, 10 February 1918
Romny, 26 February 1918
Romsdalen, 17 February 1917
Rona, 18 June 1916
Rosalie [4,243grt], 10 August 1915
Rosalie [4,237grt], 20 February 1917
Rosalind, 6 April 1917
Rosario, 18 August 1917
Roscommon, 21 August 1917
Rosebank, 31 May 1917
Rose Dorothea, 16 February 1917
Rose Marie, 5 January 1918
Rosehill, 23 September 1917
Rose Lea, 14 March 1917
Rosemoor, 17 July 1916
Rosemount, 6 August 1917
Ross, 22 April 1916
Rota, 22 July 1917
Rothesay, 5 March 1916
Rotorua, 22 March 1917
Roumanie, 2 September 1915
Rowanmore, 26 October 1916
Rowena, 18 April 1917
Roxburgh, 4 March 1918
Royal Edward, 13 August 1915
Ruabon, 2 May 1916
Rubio, 25 February 1918
Ruby, 28 March 1917
Ruel, 21 August 1915
Runo, 5 September 1914
Runswick, 18 April 1918
Ruperra, 20 June 1917
Russian, 14 December 1916
Rustington, 25 July 1917
Rutherglen, 24 July 1917
Ruth Hickman, 24 May 1918
Ruysdael, 7 September 1918
Rydal Hall, 1 December 1917
Rye, 7 April 1918
Rytonhall, 2 September 1917
 
S

Sabbia, 20 April 1916
Sabia, 24 November 1917
Saga, 14 February 1918
Sagamore, 3 March 1917
Saidieh, 1 June 1915
Saima, 8 June 1918
Sailor Prince, 2 October 1915
Saint Mirren, 26 May 1917
Saint Mungo, 2 May 1917
Salerno, 14 October 1915
Sallagh, 10 February 1917
Salmo, 7 April 1917
Salmonpool, 1 June 1916
Salsette, 20 July 1917
Salta, 10 April 1917
Salybia, 24 March 1916
Samara, 19 August 1915
Samuset, 20 March 1918
San Andres, 2 September 1918
San Bernardino, 10 August 1916
San Hilario, 20 April 1917
San Nicola, 31 March 1918
San Onofre, 12 May 1917
San Rito, 15 February 1918
San Urbano, 1 May 1917
San Wilfrido, 3 August 1914
Sandon Hall, 1 January 1918
Sandhurst, 6 May 1918
Sandsend, 16 September 1917
Santa Amalia, 28 December 1917
Santa Isabel, 14 April 1918
Santaren, 15 September 1917
Sanwen, 29 September 1917
Sapele, 26 October 1917
Saragossa, 8 June 1917
Sarah Radcliffe, 11 November 1916
Sardinia, 15 June 1916
Savona, 1 September 1915
Saxon, 7 May 1918
Saxon Briton, 6 February 1917
Saxon Monarch, 24 June 1917
Saxon Prince, 25 February 1916
Saxonian, 7 February 1917
Scalpa, 18 April 1917
Scawby, 6 October 1915
Scholar, 18 May 1918
Scottish Hero, 10 June 1917
Scottish Monarch, 29 June 1915
Sculptor [3,846grt], 18 April 1917
Sculptor [4,874grt], 17 May 1918
SD, 2 August 1916
Sea Gull [144grt], 26 February 1917
Sea Gull [976grt], 17 March 1918
Sea Serpent, 23 March 1916
Seang Choon, 10 July 1917
Seatonia, 1 November 1916
Sebek, 21 April 1917
Secondo, 27 September 1916
Seeker, 3 December 1916
Seistan, 23 October 1917
Selby, 30 September 1914
Semantha, 14 October 1917
Senator Dantziger, 19 April 1917
Serapis, 26 June 1917
Serbino, 16 August 1915
Serula, 16 September 1918
Setter, 13 September 1918
Seven Seas, 1 April 1915
Sheaf Blade, 25 October 1917
Sheldrake, 8 November 1916
Shenandoah, 14 April 1916
Shimosa, 30 July 1917
Shirala, 2 July 918
Sidmouth, 24 October 1916
Silksworth Hall, 10 April 1916
Silverash, 6 October 1915
Silverburn, 13 June 1917
Silverdale, 9 March 1918
Silverton, 13 July 1916
Silvia [5,268grt], 23 August 1915
Silvia [164grt], 1 April 1917
Simla, 2 April 1916
Sir Francis, 7 June 1917
Sir Joseph, 16 March 1917
Sir Richard Awdry, 8 November 1915
Sir Walter, 24 July 1917
Sir William Stephenson, 29 August 1915
Sixty-Six, 29 June 1918
Sjaelland, 25 May 1917
Skaraas, 23 May 1918
Skerries, 4 November 1916
Sneaton, 3 April 1916
Snowdon, 19 May 1918
Snowdonian, 31 July 1917
Snowden Range, 27 March 1917
Sofie, ? 3 February 1918
Solway Prince, 27 June 1917
Solway Queen, 2 April 1918
Somerset, 26 July 1917
Somme, 30 March 1917
Sommeina, 15 September 1917
Sonnie, 11 August 1917
South Arklow Light Vessel, 28 March 1917
Southborough, 16 July1918
Southford, 25 February 1916
Southgarth, 29 May 1916
Southina, 7 July 1917
Southland, 4 June 1917
South Point [3,837grt], 27 March 1915
South Point [4,258grt], 11 June 1917
South Wales, 24 June 1917
South Western, 16 March 1918
Sowwell, 19 April 1917
Sparkling Foam, 15 March 1918
Sparta, 28 October 1916
Spennymoor, 28 May 1915
Spenser, 6 January 1918
Spero, 2 November 1916
Sphene, 3 August 1916
Spinaway, 26 December 1916
Spiral, 4 August 1916
Spital, 15 January 1918
Spithead, 6 April 1917
Spray, 14 April 1917
Springhill, 24 August 1917
Springwell, 9 February 1916
Saint Barchan, 21 October 1918
Saint Cecilia, 26 March 1916
Saint Ninian, 7 February 1917
Saint Ronald, 19 September 1917
Saint Theodore, 12 December 1916
St Andrews, 13 June 1917
St. Dimitrios, 20 March 1918
St.Dunstan, 23 September 1917
St. Gothard, 26 September 1916
St. Margaret, 12 September 1917
St. Magnus, 12 February 1918
St. Olaf, 19 August 1915
St. Ursula, 12 December 1916
Standish Hall, 4 February 1918
Stamfordham, 4 August 1916
Stanhope, 17 June 1917
Staithes, 21 September 1918
Stanley, 21 March 1917
Stathe, 26 September 1916
Statesman, 3 November 1916
Steelville, 3 January 1918
Sten, 18 October 1917
Stephanotis [ex-Hackensack], 25 April 1917
Solt-Nielsen, 11 March 1918
Storm, 9 September 1917
Strathalbyn, 10 December 1916
Strathallan, 2 September 1916
Strathcarron, 8 June 1915
Strathconan, 13 April 1917
Strathdene, 8 October 1916
Strathnairn, 15 June 1915
Strathroy, 31 August 1914
Strathtay, 6 September 1916
Stephano, 8 October 1916
Stryn, 10 June 1918
Stuart Prince, 22 March 1917
Sturton, 7 February 1918
Subadar, 27 July 1918
Suffolk Coast, 7 November 1916
Summerfield, 13 August 1915
Sunbeam, 4 July 1915
Sunlight, 6 June 1915
Sunniside, 9 November 1916
Sunniva, 28 June 1918
Suntrap, 7 November 1917
Surada, 2 November 1918
Susannah, 8 June 1915
Sutherland, 17 January 1916
Swanmore, 25 April 1917
Swan River, 27 September 1917
Swedish Prince, 17 August 1916
Swiftsure, 9 September 1917
Swift Wings, 1 September 1916
Sycamore, 25 August 1917
Sylvanian, 24 June 1917
Sylvie, 15 July 1916
Szechuen, 10 May 1918
 
T

Tabasco, 26 January 1917
Talisman, 6 August 1917
Tamar, 25 March 1915
Tangistan, 9 March 1915
Tagona, 16 May 1918
Tagus, 6 September 1916
Tamele, 16 July 1917
Tandil, 12 March 1917
Tanis, 27 November 1915
Tarbertness, 7 March 1918
Tarpeia, 11 May 1917
Tarquah, 7 July 1917
Tartary, 16 May 1918
Tasman, 16 September 1918
Tasso, 17 March 1917
Taxiarchis, 29 January 1918
Teakwood, 28 April 1917
Teal, 29 April 1916
Teano, 29 June 1916
T Crowley, 10 March 1917
Tecwyn, 20 February 1917
Teeling Head, 21 January 1918
Teesborough, 3 September 1916
Tela, 2 May 1917
Telena, 21 April 1917
Tempus, 19 April 1917
Terence, 28 April 1917
Tergestea, 13 February 1916
Teutonian, 4 March 1916
Teviotdale, 11 June 1917
Tewfikieh, 9 June 1918
Thalia, 8 October 1918
Thames, 26 May 1918
The Duke, 20 October 1916
The Macbain, 4 March 1917
The Marchioness, 20 October 1916
The Marquis, 8 November 1917
The President, 10 April 1915
The Queen [557grt], 17 August 1915
The Queen [1,676grt], 26 October 1916
The Stewart's Court, 21 August 1918
Thelma, 26 September 1916
Theodor, 5 September 1917
Thirlby, 2 July 1917
Thistleard, 24 April 1917
Thistleban, 23 December 1916
Thistledhu, 18 June 1917
Thomas, 18 April 1917
Thornaby, 28 February 1916
Thornfield, 17 August 1915
Thorpwood, 8 October 1915
Thorsa, 2 May 1918
Thracia, 27 March 1917
Thurso, 27 September 1916
Tiberia, 22 February 1918
Tillycorthie, 1 March 1917
Titian, 26 August 1917
Toftwood, 13 January 1917
Togston, 18 October 1917
Tokomaru, 30 January 1915
Toledo, ? 5 October 1917
Tommi, 5 May 1918
Tom Roper, 21 October 1917
Tong Hong, 27 June 1917
Topaz, 12 March 1917
Torcello, 15 July 1917
Torino, 29 October 1916
Toro, 12 April 1917
Torr Head, 20 April 1917
Torridge, 6 September 1916
Torrington, 8 April 1917
Tortuguero, 22 June 1918
Tottenham, 4 August 1916
Toward, 31 October 1915
Towergate, 16 April 1917
Towneley, 31 January 1918
Trabboch, 14 September 1914
Trader, 13 January 1916
Trafalgar, 23 August 1915
Trafford, 16 June 1915
Transylvania, 4 May 191
Traquair, 12 January 1916
Tredegar Hall, 23 October 1917
Trefusis, 7 April 1917
Tregantle, 22 April 1916
Tregenna, 26 December 1917
Trekieve, 18 April 1917
Trelissick, 15 July 1917
Treloske, 29 August 1917
Trelyon, 21 July 1917
Trematon, 20 January 1916
Tremeadow, 19 January 1917
Tremorvah, 11 April 1917
Treneglos, 14 November 1915
Trevarrack, 16 November 1916
Treveal, 4 February 1918
Trevean, 22 January 1917
Treverbyn, 3 September 1917
Trevose, 18 March 1917
Trident, 7 August 1916
Tringa, 26 November 1915
Trinidad, 22 March 1918
Tritonia [4,272grt], 19 December 1914
Tritonia [4,445grt], 27 February 1917
Triumph, 18 February 1917
Trocas, 19 January 1918
Troilus [7,562grt], 18 October 1914
Troilus [7,625grt], 2 May 1917
Trojan Prince, 23 February 1917
Trongate, 22 September 1917
T R Thompson, 29 March 1918
Trowbridge, 14 November 1917
Trunkby, 27 May 1916
Truro, 6 May 1915
Tullochmoor, 28 May 1915
Tummel, 24 February 1916
Tung Shan, 15 May 1917
Tunisiana, 23 June 1915
Turakina, 13 August 1917
Turino, 4 February 1917
Turnbridge, 24 December 1917
Turquoise, 31 July 1915
Turritella, 27 February 1917
Tuscania, 5 February 1918
Tuskar, 6 September 1917
Tweed [1,025grt], 13 March 1918
Tweed [1,777grt], 14 March 1918
Twig, 24 October 1916
Tycho, 20 May 1917
Tymeric, 25 September 1914
Tyne, 17 June 1917
Tyrhaug, 22 March 1918
 
U

Uganda [4,135grt], 8 March 1918
Uganda [5.431grt], 27 May 1918
Ultonia, 27 June 1917
Umaria, 26 May 1917
Umba, 30 April 1918
Umballa, 25 December 1917
Umeta, 1 December 1915
Umvoti, 8 April 1917
Unity, 2 May 1918
Upcerne, 28 April 1918
Urbino, 24 September 1915
Urd, 11 September 1917
Uskmoor, 5 March 1918
Ussa, 3 May 1917
Utopia [155grt], 10 August 1915
Utopia [184grt], 2 March 1917
 
V

Valdes, 17 February 1917
Valencia, 16 July 1917
Valetta, 8 July 1917
Vandalia, 9 June 1918
Vandyk, 26 October 1914
Vanellus, 1 October 1916
Vanguard, 16 November 1916
Van Stirum, 25 December 1915
Vasco, 16 November 1916
Vauxhall, 25 April 1917
Vedamore, 7 February 1917
Veghstroom, 23 August 1917
Vellore, 25 March 1917
Vendee, 8 July 1917
Venetia, 9 December 1917
Ventmoor, 14 February 1918
Verdi, 22 August 1917
Vera Elizabeth, 5 July 1918
Veria, 7 December 1915
Vernon, 31 August 1917
Vestra, 6 February 1917
Vesuvio, 6 April 1916
Vianna, 31 March 1918
Victoria [165grt], 16 April 1917
Victoria [1,620grt], 29 April 1917
Victoria [974grt], 17 November 1917
Vienna, 11 September 1917
Vigilant, 26 September 1915
Vimeira, 12 May 1918
Vine Branch, ?? 11 April 1917
Vinovia, 19 December 1917
Violet, 18 June 1917
Virent, 24 August 1918
Virginia, 16 July 1916
Volnay, 14 December 1917
Volodia, 21 August 1917
Voltaire [8,618grt], 2 December 1916
Voltaire [409grt], 11 February 1917
Vosges, 27 March 1915
Vronwen, 29 August 1917
 
W

Waihemo, 17 March 1918
Waikawa, 19 October 1917
Wairuna, 2 June 1917
Waitemata, 14 July 1918
Wallsend, 14 August 1918
Waneta, 30 May 1918
Wapello, 15 June 1917
Warilda, 3 August 1918
Warley Pickering, 5 February 1917
Warnow, 2 May 1917
War Arabis, 9 September 1918
War Baron, 5 January 1918
War Crocus, 8 July 1918
War Council, 16 October 1918
War Firth, 4 September 1918
War Helmet, 19 April 1918
War Monarch, 14 February 1918
War Patrol, 10 August 1917
War Song, 15 January 1918
War Swallow, 16 July 1918
War Tune, 9 December 1917
Warren, 1 April 1917
Warrior, 21 April 1917
Warsaw, 20 December 1917
Wartenfels, 5 February 1917
Washington, 3 May 1917
Watauga, 27 March 1918
Waterlily, 10 September 1917
Wathfield, 21 February 1917
Waverley, 20 December 1917
W C Mackay, ?10 January 1918
W D Potts, 1 May 1917
Wearside, 25 October 1917
Wega, 14 June 1917
Welbeck Hall, 22 April1918
Welbury, 1 July 1915
Wellington, 16 September 1918
Welsh Prince, 13 October 1916
Wentworth, 2 September 1917
Westburn, 8 February 1916
Westbury, 31 August 1917
Westfield, 10 April 1918
Westlands, 23 November 1917
Westonby, 15 June 1917
Westergate, 21 April 1918
Western Coast [1,165grt], 24 February 1915
Western Coast [1,394grt], 17 November 1917
Westminster, 14 December 1916
Westmoor, 1 July 1918
Westville, 31 December 1917
West Wales, 21 January 1918
Westwick, 7 March 1917
Westwood, 3 October 1918
W Harkness, 22 October 1916
W H Dwyer, 26 August 1917
W H L, 28 January 1918
W M L, 30 June 1918
Wheatflower, 19 February 1918
Whitecourt, 28 August 1917
Whitefield, 1 September 1915
Whitehall, 28 July 1917
White Head, 15 October 1917
Whitgift, 20 April 1916
Wilberforce, 7 July 1917
Wilfrid M, 14 January 1915
Wilhelm, 7 June 1917
Willena Gertrude, 21 July 1917
Wileysike, 9 May 1918
William, 11 September 1917
W M Barkley, 12 October 1917
William Martin, 16 March 1917
William Shepherd, 17 April 1917
Willer, 20 February 1915
William Dawson, 21 August 1915
William George, 30 September 1916
Willie, 16 March 1916
Willingtonia, 25 August 1918
Wilson, 12 April 1918
Wilston, 15 February 1916
Wilton Hall, 16 July 1916
Wimmera, 26 June 1918
Windermere, 27 June 1916
Windsor, 21 August 1915
Windsor Hall, 17 January 1918
Winlaton, 23 August 1917
Wirral, 12 May 1917
Wisbech, 14 August 1917
Wolff, 21 July 1916
Woodfield, 3 November 1915
Woolston, 14 May 1918
Woolwich, 3 November 1915
Worcestershire, 17 February 1917
Wordsworth, 11 March 1917
Wrag, 4 January 1917
Wreathier, 3 December 1917
Wychwood, 28 March 1917
Wyndhurst, 6 December 1917
 
X


Y

Yarrowdale, 11 December 1916
Yeddo, 24 December 1915
Yochow, 20 March 1918
Yonne, 6 April 1916
Ypres, 31 July 1917
Yzer, 21 July 1916
 
Z

Zafra, 8 April 1916
Zanoni, 12 May 1917
Zara, 13 April 1917
Zeno, 20 February 1918
Zent, 5 April 1917
Zermatt, 24 July 1917
Zeta, 14 September 1917
Zillah, 22 October 1917
Zinal, 17 August 1918
Zone, 30 December 1917
Zoroaster, 29 December 1916


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JANUARY 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in January: 16 merchant ships totalling 62,288grt - 8 of 27,888grt to surface ships, 5 of 27,974grt to submarines, 3 of 6,426grt to mines, plus 7 fishing vessels totalling 357grt, all to submarines (H)

 

Saturday, 1 January 1916

Mediterranean

San Tirso, tanker steamship, 6,236/1913, Eagle Oil Transport Co, London. Chased by U-boat, escaped (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean

GLENGYLE, 9,395/1914, Glen Line, Glasgow-reg, armed, Vladivostok/Bombay for Genoa/London with cotton, linseed and general cargo. Torpedoed by U.34 (Claus Rücker) (ge - by U.38), sank 240 miles E by S of Malta (L - 240 miles S81ºE true of); 10 lives lost. Note: both U-boats may have been present, see SS Coquet sunk on the 4th (H/L/ge/te/un) (Casualty list – RN only)

     

Saturday, 2 January 1916

North Sea

Glocliffe, cargo steamship, 2,211/1915, Globe Shipping Co (Humphries), Cardiff, sailing Newcastle for Havre with coal. Mined, laid by unidentified U-boat, 5 miles NNE of Elbow Buoy, off North Foreland, damaged, beached Oven's Flat, near Canvey Is, later refloated. Admiralty collier when sunk 19 August 1917. (H/L/ms/un)

 

Tuesday, 4 January 1916

Central Mediterranean

COQUET, 4,396/1904, Mercantile SS Co, London-reg, master, Mr Arnold Groom, Torrevieja for Rangoon with 6,200t salt, lookout being kept, two lifeboats slung out ready for lowering, moderate breeze and heavy swell. Two shells passed the bow just before noon and two submarines spotted (ge - U.38; te - U.34; Mn - possibly both), boats ordered away, ship sunk by bombs 200 miles E of Malta (un – by U.34 (Claus Rücker)); 17 crew lost in the boat that did not survive, the other reached the North African coast at Ras Amana after six days, attacked by Bedouin leaving three killed and two wounded, other ten taken prisoner and in captivity for 8 months (H/L/Mn/ge/te/un)

 

Friday, 7 January 1916

North Sea

EUTERPE (1), 1,522/1883, Osborn & Wallis, sailing Huelva for Middlesbrough with pyrites, passed Yarmouth on 7th, “taking pilot”, went missing, posted by Lloyds 23/2/16. Confirmed as mined, laid by unknown U-boat; 19 lives lost including master (H/L/te/un)

     

Tuesday, 11 January 1916

Atlantic off NW Spain

Two steamships stopped with a shot across the bows and captured by German raider Möwe off Cape Finisterre:

FARRINGFORD, 3,146/1896, Harrogate SS Co, Sunderland-reg, sailing Huelva for Garston with copper ore. Ordered to abandon ship in heavy swell, sunk with “a few” 5.9in shells 150 miles W by N 1/2 N true of (L - 44N, 12.25W) (H/L/Mn/kp)

CORBRIDGE, 3,687/1910, Corbridge SS Co, Cardiff-reg, Mr Barton, Barry for Rosario with 4,000t of “good-quality Welsh” coal. Chased and stopped 140 miles W by N 1/2 N true of (L - in 44N, 12.20W), sent to a rendezvous point at llha Maraca, off mouth of the Amazon, Möwe arrived 27th, spent three days coaling, Corbridge taken out to sea, scuttled on 30th off Amazon (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

 

Wednesday, 12 January 1916

Dover Straits

TRAQUAIR, 1,067/1915,  George Gibson, Leith-reg,20 crew, Mr G Telford, sailing Leith for Dunkirk with 1,290t cargo/coal. Mined at 1045, laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), exploded between engine-room and  No.3 hold blowing hatches and cargo in the air, immediately took heavy list to starboard and settled, sank at 1050, 1 mile SW of Admiralty Pier, Dover (L - 1 mile SSW of Dover; wi - in 51.05.42N, 01.18.53E); only starboard boats could be lowered, survivors picked up by patrol boat - probably HMT Strathyre, landed at Dover that day at 1130 (H/L/te/un/wi)

English Channel

ALGERIAN, 3,837/1896, Papayanni Line, Liverpool-reg, 53 crew, Mr E Leader, Cowes Roads for Avonmouth in ballast, clear of Isle of Wight. Mined starboard side abreast No.2 hatch, laid by UC.5 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sent out SOS, three armed drifters and Trinity House vessel SS Warden responded, latter took her in tow for Southampton. Approaching Cowes and bulkhead collapsed, sank at 1430. Note: it would appear she was mined 2 1/2 m SW of Needles LH (L - 1 1/2 m SW of Bridge Buoy, Needles) but according to “Wreck Index” sank 1 mile W of Egypt Point, in 50.46.01N, 01.20.19W (H/L/te/un/wi)

     

Thursday, 13 January 1916

Atlantic off Portugal

Two steamships (and an Admiralty collier) captured by Möwe, boarded by scuttling parties and sunk off Lisbon:

AUTHOR (1), 3,496/1905, Charente SS Co, Liverpool-reg, 58 crew, Mr James Arthur, sailing London for Beira/Durban/Delagoa Bay with general cargo. Supplies taken off, sea cocks opened and time-fused explosive charges laid, sank at 1750, 225 miles W  1/2 N true of (L - in 39N, 14W) (H/L/Mn/kp)

TRADER, 3,608/1906, London Traders Shipping Co, London-reg, sailing Talara for Queenstown with sugar cane. Sea cocks opened and charges fired, sunk by 1740, 225 miles W  1/2  N true of (L - in 39N, 14W) (H/L/Mn/kp)

     

Friday, 14 January 1916

Dover Straits

Breslau, passenger & cargo steamship, 1,339 (ms – 1,369)/1883, J Currie & Co, sailing Calais for London, no cargo. Mined, laid by UC.3 (Erwin Wassner) 6 miles NW of Boulogne (L/un - 6 miles NW of Grisnez), beached Boulogne Harbour, refloated (H/L/ms/un)

 

Saturday, 15 January 1916

Atlantic off Madeira

Two steamships captured by Möwe, a third the next day:

Appam, passenger ship, 7,781/1913, British & African Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool-reg, probably 1-4in, sailing for UK with cargo including rubber, gold bullion to value of £50,000, and at least 150 passengers, including Governor of Sierra Leone, Administrator of Nigeria and German nationals from Togoland and Cameroons for internment. (L - 16th) - Ordered to stop, refused and transmitted distress signals that were jammed, Möwe did not open fire because of the passengers, Appam then stopped by shot across the bows 135 miles E  1/2  N true of Madeira islands; 2 gunners taken prisoner. Placed under command of Lt Hans Berg with 200 prisoners on board, ordered on the 17th to put into a neutral American port after a suitable delay, arrived at Newport News on 16 February, taken into Norfolk (Va), later released by order of US Court (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

ARIADNE, 3,035/1904, Ariadne SS Co, London-reg, sailing Rosario for Nantes with grain and maize. Sunk by gunfire and torpedo 140 miles E by N true from Funchal (L - in 33.07N, 14.09W) (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

 

Sunday, 16 January 1916

Atlantic off Madeira

CLAN MACTAVISH, passenger ship, 5,816/1912, Clan Line, Glasgow-reg, 1-6pdr, Capt William Oliver, Wellington for London with cargo including leather, wool. (L - 17th) - Ordered to stop but transmitted SOS, Möwe opened fire on the bridge from short range, Clan Mactavish replied with single stern gun leading to a short action that stopped after five minutes, survivors taken off, ship sunk by gunfire 120 miles S by W true from Funchal (L - in 30.52N, 17.20W; kp - 30.40N, 17.10W); 17 or 18 crew lost in shelling, master, 2 gunners taken prisoner and interned in Germany, presumably other survivors released later (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

 

Monday, 17 January 1916

Mediterranean

Esneh, cargo steamship, 3,247/1908, Moss SS Co (J Moss), Liverpool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 31 May 1917 (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean

Two vessels (and a Q-ship) attacked by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière):

SUTHERLAND, 3,542/1901, Sutherland SS Co, sailing Bombay for Hull with manganese ore and seeds. Captured by U.35, sunk by gunfire 192 miles SE by E of Malta (L/te - in 34.43N, 18.08E); one life lost (H/L/te)

Baron Napier, cargo steamship, 4,943/1909, H Hogarth & Sons, Ardrossan, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire, reported incident by wireless (H/md/ms)

 

Tuesday, 18 January 1916

North Sea

Three sail fishing smacks captured by UB.16 (Hans Valentiner) and sunk by bombs off Lowestoft:

FOAM CREST, 46grt, Lowestoft for fishing. Sunk 25 miles SE by E of (L/wi - 25-30 miles SE of, in 52.10N, 2-15E) (H/L/un/wi)

EVELYN, 55grt. Sunk 35 miles SE by E of (L - 34 miles SE by E off) (H/L/un)     

SUNSHINE (1), ketch-rigged, 52/1902, E J Wren, Lowestoft-reg LT959, Lowestoft for fishing. (un – 19th) - Sunk 28 miles SE of (L/wi - 27 miles SE of, in 52.10N, 2-16E) (H/L/bm/un/wi)

Central Mediterranean

MARERE, 6,443/1902, Commonwealth & Dominion Line, London, armed, sailing Fremantle for Mudros/Gibraltar with general cargo. (un – 17th) - Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by gunfire 236 miles E of Malta (L/te - in 35.51N, 19.20E, ms – 35.51N, 19.07E) (H/L/Mn/ms/te/un)

     

Thursday, 20 January 1916

Atlantic off Cape Verdes

EDINBURGH, 3-mast iron barque, 1,473/1885, J Stewart & Co, Glasgow-reg, sailing Rangoon for Liverpool with rice meal. (L - 22nd) - Captured by Möwe, sunk by bombs 700 miles W by S 1/2 S true from St Vincent island, NW Cape Verdes (L - in 13.20N, 36.36W) (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

Central Mediterranean

TREMATON, 4,198/1914, Hain SS Co, St Ives, sailing Karachi for UK with grain. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by gunfire 180 miles E by S of Malta (L/te - in 35.24N, 18.09E) (H/L/te/un)

 

Saturday, 22 January 1916

North Sea

Falls City, cargo steamship, 4,729/1913, Reardon Smith & Sons, Bideford, sailing South Shields for Genoa with coal. Mined, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche) S of Kentish Knock, off Thames estuary (L - between Elbow Buoy and Kentish Knock), beached (H/L/ms/un)

Dover Straits

Gemma, cargo steamship, 1,385/1904, Holm & Molzen. Aircraft attack off Deal, bombs missed. Sunk 19 October 1917 (H/ms)

Aegean Sea

NORSEMAN (1), passenger ship/horse-transport, 9,542/1897, British & North Atlantic Steam Navigation Co (Dominion Line), Liverpool, armed, Plymouth for Salonica with mules, munitions. Torpedoed by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Gran Capo, Gulf of Salonica, taken in tow for Mudros, Lemnos island, beached, broken up on the spot from 1920 on. Note: in attacked section of HMSO (H/L/ge/un/wd)

 

Sunday, 23 January 1916

North Sea

Carlo (1), cargo steamship, 1,987/1913, T Wilson Sons & Co, Hull. Aircraft attack, bombs missed. Sunk 13 November 1917 (H/ms)

Mediterranean

Esneh, cargo steamship, 3,247/1908, J Moss & Co, Liverpool, armed. U-boat attack, torpedo missed. Sunk 31 May 1917 (H)

     

Wednesday, 26 January 1916

North Sea

Petrel (2), trawler, 151/1893, Grimsby-reg, fishing. Mined, probably surface-ship laid, and damaged 130 miles NE of Spurn. Sunk 30 March 1917 (L/gy/ms)

Mediterranean

Astraea, cargo steamship, 3,229 (ms – 3,297)/1898, Rickinson Sons & Co, West Hartlepool. Captured by U-boat, rescued (H/ms)     

 

Thursday, 27 January 1916

German commerce raider Greif, 4,962grt, 4-5.9in/1-4.1in sailed from Germany

North Sea

CRYSTAL, sailing smack, 57grt, Lowestoft-reg LT325, Lowestoft for fishing. Captured by UB.6 (Ernst Voight), sunk by bomb 25 miles ESE of Southwold, S of Lowestoft (wi - in 52.08N, 02.17E) (H/L/lt/un/wi)

Mediterranean

Trewellard, cargo steamship, 4,202/1914, E Hain & Son, St Ives, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

     

Friday, 28 January 1916

Mediterranean

Malta (2), passenger & cargo steamship, 6,064/1895, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation (P&O), Greenock, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Sunday,  30 January 1916

Mediterranean

Two armed ships attacked by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:     

Ingoma, passenger & cargo steamship, 5,686/1913, T & J Harrison, Liverpool. Gun attack (H/ms)

Sebek, cargo steamship, 4,601/1909, J Moss & Co, Liverpool. Chased. Sunk 21 April 1917 (H/ms)

 

Monday, 31 January 1916

North Sea

Three sailing smacks from Lowestoft for fishing, captured by UB.17 (Ralph Wenninger) and sunk by bombs:

HILDA, 44grt. Sunk 25 miles ESE of Southwold (L/wi - 14 miles E by S of Aldeburgh, in 52.08N, 01.59E) (H/L/un/wi)

RADIUM, 59grt. Sunk 25 miles SE by E of Lowestoft (wi - 25 miles SE by S of, in 52.08N, 02.09E) (H/L/un/wi)     

ARTHUR WILLIAM, c44grt. Sunk 24 miles SE of Lowestoft (wi - 30 miles SE of, in 52.08N, 02.21E) (H/L/un/wi)




 


FEBRUARY 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in February: 26 merchant ships totalling 75,860grt - 4 of 14,735grt to surface ships, 7 of 24,059grt to submarines, 14 of 36,096grt to mines, 1 of 970grt to aircraft, plus 2 fishing vessels totalling 68grt, both to submarines (H)



Tuesday, 1 February 1916

North Sea

FRANZ FISCHER, ex-German, 970/1881, seized as prize, requisitioned by The Admiralty, London-reg, Mr J Colling, Hartlepool for Cowes with coal, anchored near Kentish Knock. Reportedly bombed by German Zeppelin rigid airship, sank 2 miles S of Kentish Knock, off Thames estuary (wi - in 51.37.01N, 01.40.17E); 13 crew lost including master. Note: according to Corbett, although this was the first recorded sinking by a Zeppelin bomb, there is little doubt she was torpedoed by UB.17 (Ralph Wenninger); confirmed by Uboat.net (H/L/Lr/Rn/Mn/un/wi)

Eastern Mediterranean

BELLE OF FRANCE, 3,876/1905, Belle Agency, Liverpool-reg, sailing Karachi for Algiers with grain. Torpedoed by Pola-based U.21 (Otto Hersing) (other sources - U.33 (Konrad Gansser)), sunk 126 miles NW by W of Alexandria (L/te - in 32.30N, 27.45E); 19 lives lost. Gansser was on the original British of war criminals for diving with Belle of France survivors on deck. The case was progressed post-war as Naval Case No.21, but may never have been strong - as the crew got away, one of the boats capsized in the confusion, the U-boat surfaced, picked up the men and called for the other boats to take them off. As they did, four trawlers, possibly armed, were sighted and the submarine hurriedly submerged. The case is not believed to have gone to court (H/L/ge/os/te/un)

 

Sunday, 6 February 1916

North Sea

BALGOWNIE, 1,061/1880, General Steam Navigation Co, London-reg, Mr J Goodson, sailing London for Leith with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 1 1/2 m ESE of Sunk Head Buoy, off Harwich (L/wi - 1 mile E mag of, in 51.45.29N, 01.32.13E); one life lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

Central Atlantic

FLAMENCO, 4,629/1906, Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool-reg, sailing Liverpool/Newport for Valparaiso with coal. Möwe fired a shot across the bows and ordered her to stop, failed to do so, single hit forced her to heave to, boarded, sea cocks opened and explosive charges laid, sank 310 miles NE by N true from Pernambuco, NE Brazil (L - 03.44S, 31.47W); one seaman killed by the shell (H/L/Mn/kp)

 

Tuesday, 8 February 1916

North Sea

Elswick Manor, 3,943/1901, Elswick SS Co (Weidner, Hopkins), Newcastle, sailing Baltimore for Hull with barley. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Franz Wäger) 4 miles S by S of Southwold, damaged and towed in, beached off Yarmouth, refloated. Sunk 19 April 1917 (H/L/ms/un)

Dover Straits

ARGO (1), 1,720/1882, Bristol Steam Navigation Co, Bristol-reg, sailing Boulogne for Dunkirk with pitwood. Mined, laid by UC.3 (Erwin Wassner), sank 4 1/2 m NW from Boulogne Pier (L - 5 miles W by N of Boulogne Breakwater Light); one life lost (H/L/te/un)

Mediterranean

Professor, 3,580/1910, Charente SS Vo (T & J Harrison), Liverpool, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

Central Atlantic

WESTBURN, 3,300/1893, James Westoll, Sunderland-reg, sailing Cardiff/Liverpool for Buenos Aires with coal. Captured by Möwe 530 miles NNE true from Pernambuco (L - in 00.11N, 31.30W), placed under command of Unteroffizier (petty Officer) Badewitz and eight German seamen, majority of prisoners put on board, landed at Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 22nd, encountered armoured cruiser HMS Sutlej outside territorial waters on 23rd and scuttled; master and 2nd officer taken prisoner and kept on board Möwe. Badewitz was interned in Spain, escaped, returned to Germany and joined Möwe for her second cruise (H/L/Mn/kp)

 

Wednesday, 9 February 1916

Central Mediterranean

SPRINGWELL, 5,593/1914, Tyzack & Branfoot SS Co, Sunderland, armed, sailing Middlesbrough/London for Calcutta with general cargo. Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sank 64 miles SW by W of Gavdo Is, off Crete (L/te - in 34.10N, 23E) (H/L/te/un)

Central Atlantic

HORACE, 3,335/1895, Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool-reg, sailing Buenos Aires for Liverpool with general cargo including piece goods, copper ore. Stopped by raider Möwe around 0500, boarded, sea cocks opened and explosive charges set, sank 610 miles NNE true from Pernambuco (L - in 01.22N, 30.45W) (H/L/Mn/kp)

 

Thursday, 10 February 1916

Mercantile warfare - Germany informed the US Government that from 1 March all defensively-armed merchant ships would be treated as belligerents

 

Saturday, 12 February 1916

North Sea

CEDARWOOD, 654/1907, Joseph Constantine, Middlesbrough-reg, 12 crew, Mr Miller, Middlesbrough for Fécamp with cast iron ingots/pigs. Mined, laid by UC.4 (Friedrich Moecke), sank 2 1/2 m E of Aldeburgh Napes, Suffolk (L - 2 1/2 m E of; wi - 7 1/2 m ENE of Orford Ness, in 52.08.48N, 01.45.50E); 6 crew lost (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

 

Sunday, 13 February 1916

North Sea

TERGESTEA, 4,308/1911, The Admiralty, London-reg, 28 crew, Tyne for London with coal, steaming at 9kts. Mined, laid by UC.4 (Friedrich Moecke), sank 8 miles E by S of Aldeburgh, N of Orford Ness (L - 2 miles E of Buoy off Aldeburgh; wi - mined 8 miles E by S of Aldeburgh, started to fill, taken in tow for shallow water for beaching, apparently sank in position given by Lloyds, in 52.07.28N, 01.49.26E); crew rescued by naval trawler, landed at Great Yarmouth (H/L/te/un/wi)

     

Thursday, 17 February 1916

North Atlantic

Demerara, 11,484/1912, Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, Belfast, armed. Chased by Möwe, escaped (H/ms) 

 

Sunday, 20 February 1916

North Sea

Glenfoyle, 1,680/1913, J Playfair, Londonderry. Aircraft attack, bombs missed. Admiralty Q-ship when sunk 18 September 1917 (H/D/ms/qs)

DINGLE, 593/1914, West Lancashire SS Co, Liverpool-reg, Mr F Leckie, Sunderland for Caen with coal. Mined, laid by UC.5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), sank 10 miles S by W of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary (L/wi - 10 miles SE of, in 51.29.06N, 01.37.50E); 9 crew lost including master (H/L/te/un/wi)

     

Monday, 21 February 1916

Mercantile warfare - Germans informed US Government that defensively-armed merchant ships would be treated as cruisers

North Sea

Two, probably three sailing smacks on fishing grounds attacked by UB.12 (Wilhelm Kiel) SE of Lowestoft:

W. E. BROWN, c34grt. Captured by UB.12, sunk by bomb 20 miles off (L/wi - 28 miles SE of, in 52.10N, 02.18E) (H/L/un/wi)

OLEANDER, 34grt. Captured by UB.12, sunk by bomb 28 miles off (wi - in 52.10N, 02.18E) (H/L/un/wi)

Kestrel (1), 44grt. Damaged by U-boat 28 miles off, towed into Lowestoft (L)

         

Wednesday, 23 February 1916

Mediterranean

Olympic, passenger ship, 46,359/1911, Oceanic Steam Navigation Co (Ismay, Imrie), Liverpool, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms)

NW Mediterranean

DIADEM (1), 3,752/1906, Hall Bros SS Co, Newcastle, sailing Marseilles for Port Said in ballast. Captured by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sunk by gunfire 56 miles SE by S of lle de Porquerolles, off Toulon (L - 56 miles SE of) (H/L/te/un)

     

Thursday, 24 February 1916

North Sea

TUMMEL, 531/1912, E P Hutchinson, Hull-reg, Mr F Goodrich, sailing Grimsby for Tréport with coal. Mined, laid by UC.5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), sank 7 miles S of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary (wi - in 51.32.18N, 01.39.56E); 9 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

NW Mediterranean

Two steamships captured by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sunk by gunfire off Planier Is LH, off Marseilles:

DENABY, 2,987/1900, West House SS Co, Glasgow-reg, Huelva for St Louis (Rhône) with iron ore. Sunk 40 miles SSW of (L - in 43.32N, 05.04E); one life lost (H/L/te/un)

FASTNET ROCK, 2,227/1887, J & P Hutchinson, Glasgow, sailing Savona for Cartagena in ballast. Sunk 55 miles SW of (H/L/te/un)

 

Friday, 25 February 1916

North Sea

SOUTHFORD, 963/1883, Ford Shipping Co, Glasgow-reg, 16 crew, Mr J McCarry, sailing Tyne for Boulogne with 1,010t coke. Mined amidships, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), immediately started to sink, went down 4 miles ESE of Southwold, S of Lowestoft (L/wi - 7 miles SSE of, in 52.18.24N, 01.48.34E); 4 crew lost, survivors landed at Great Yarmouth (H/L/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off W Ireland

SAXON PRINCE, 3,471/1899, Prince Line, Newcastle-reg, Mr William Jameson, sailing New Orleans/Norfolk (Va) for Manchester/London with general cargo including guncotton. Stopped by raider Möwe around 0600, sunk by bombs 620 miles W true of Fastnet Rock, Co Cork (L/kp - 600 miles W of) (H/L/Mn/kp)

     

Saturday, 26 February 1916

North Sea

DIDO, 4,769/1896, Wilson Line, Hull-reg, 30 crew, Mr Taylor, Middlesbrough/Hull for Bombay with general cargo, carrying one stowaway. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 4 miles NNE of Spurn Head LV, Humber estuary (L - 3 miles SE of; wi - in 53.37.18N, 00.15.15E); 28 lives lost including master and stowaway (wi - 27) (H/L/te/un/wi)

ARBONNE, 672/1908, Thomas C Steven, Edinburgh, sailed from Le Havre on 23rd for Newcastle-upon-Tyne in ballast, passed The Downs 23rd/24th, went missing, posted by Lloyds 5 April. Possibly torpedoed; 14 lives lost including master. Subsequently confirmed as torpedoed by UB.2 (Werner Fürbringer) near Kentish Knock Lightvessel, off Thames estuary on 26th (H/L/te/un)     

 

Sunday, 27 February 1916

Dover Straits

Two steamships sunk in minefield laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow) that day, both went down 2 miles S of Dover Pier:

MALOJA, passenger ship, 12,431/1910, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London-reg, 1-4.7in, 335 crew, Mr H Bradshaw, London for Bombay with 44 passengers and general cargo. Mined at 1030, engines put to full astern to take way off ship, passengers & crew entered the boats, but due to flooding the engines could not be stopped and the boats lowered. As she moved astern at 8 or 9kts with 75º list many boats were washed away,  and the ship sank in about 20min (L - 2 1/2 m S by W of Dover; wi - in 51.04.51N, 01.18.18E); 122 lives lost - all 44 passengers and 78 crew, including 3 MN stewardess’, 5 dockyard workers and 3 naval ratings (H/L/Rn/dk/ge/te/tr/un/wi)

EMPRESS OF FORT WILLIAM, Canadian, 2,181/1908, Empress Transportation Co, Montreal-reg, 20 crew, Mr E Burke, South Shields for Dunkirk with 3,300t coal, going to aid off SS Maloja. Sank (wi - in 51.05N, 01.17.45E) (H/L/Rn/te/un/wi)

 

Monday, 28 February 1916

North Sea

THORNABY, 1,782/1889, Sir R Ropner, West Hartlepool-reg, sailing Marbella for West Hartlepool with iron ore. Mined, laid by UC.3 (Erwin Wassner), sank 2 miles NE of Shipwash LV, off Orford Ness (L - 4 miles NE of; wi - in 52.04.07N, 01.45.15E); 19 crew lost including master (H/L/te/un/wi)

Mediterranean

Three armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):

Benedict, 3,378/1894, Booth SS Co, Liverpool. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire

Hunsworth, ex-German, 3,038/1911, British Government. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire

Olympic, passenger ship, 46,359/1911, Oceanic Steam Navigation Co (Ismay, Imrie), Liverpool. Torpedo missed      

Central Mediterranean

MASUNDA, 4,952/1909, Glasgow United Shipping Co (Maclay & McIntyre), Glasgow, sailing Bangkok for London with rice. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by gunfire 106 miles SW  1/2 S of Cape Matapan, Greece (L/te - in 34.54N, 21.20E) (H/L/te/un)

 

Tuesday, 29 February 1916

North Sea

Malvina, 1,244grt, London for Leith with general cargo. (L/un – 29 March 1916) – Mined, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), 4 1/2 m ENE of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary, towed into Gravesend (ms – believed 1,182/1879, London & Edinburgh SS Co, Leith, sunk 2 August 1918) (H/L/ms/un)     

Den of Ogil, 5,689grt, New York for London with general cargo. (un – 27th) - Mined, laid by UC.4 (Friedrich Moecke) (H - in North Sea; L/un - 1 mile SSE of S Goodwin LV in Dover Straits - sometimes identified as southern North Sea), towed in (H/L/un)     

Mediterranean

Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):

Nyanza (1), passenger & cargo ship, 6,695/1906, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Greenock. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

Sebek, 4,601/1909, J Moss & Co. Torpedo missed (H/ms)

 

 


MARCH 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in March: 26 merchant ships totalling 99,089grt - 19 of 83,492grt to submarines, 7 of 15,597grt to mines, plus 7 fishing vessels totalling 607grt - 6 of 304grt to submarines, 1 of 303grt to mines (H)


Wednesday, 1 March 1916

U-boat warfare - after months of internal controversy over the pros and cons of unrestricted submarine warfare, Germany decided to operate a "sharpened" restricted campaign. Attacks could be made without warning on: (1) all enemy ships inside the British Isles war zone, (2) all defensively-armed enemy ships outside the war zone which would be treated as warships, (3) troop transports sailing between Le Havre and Dunkirk. All passengers ships whether armed or unarmed, inside or outside the war zone, could not be attacked by a submerged U-boat

North Sea 

Four sailing smacks on fishing grounds captured by UB.13 (Karl Neumann) and sunk by bombs off Lowestoft:

TREVOSE, 46grt. Sunk 18 miles E by N of (L/wi - 25 miles E by S of, in 52.19N, 02.25E) (H/L/un/wi)

HAROLD, 56grt, from Lowestoft. Sunk 18 miles E of (L/wi - 25 miles E by S of, in 52.19N, 02.25E) (H/L/un/wi) 

RELIANCE (1), 54grt. Sunk 25 miles E by S of (L/wi - 22 miles ESE of Corton LV, in 52.20N, 02.22E) (H/L/un/wi)

TRY ON, 46grt, from Lowestoft. Sunk 26 miles E by S of (wi - in 52.19N, 02.25E) (H/L/un/wi)

Mediterranean

Turbo, tanker, 4,782/1912, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London, armed, Mr J Hill, sailing Port Said for London. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/Mn/ms)

 

Saturday, 4 March 1916

U-boat warfare - sinking of Teutonian was first evidence the 1916 U-boat campaign in home waters had started

German commerce raider Möwe returned to Germany from her first cruise

Atlantic off SW Ireland

TEUTONIAN, 4,824/1914, London-reg, Petroleum SS, 40 crew, Mr R Collins, Sabine/Newport News for Avonmouth with refined petroleum oil. Captured by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig), sunk by torpedo 36 miles SW by W of Fastnet Rock (L/wi - 50.55N, 10.20W) (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

   

Sunday, 5 March 1916

Atlantic off SW England

ROTHESAY, 2,007/1891, Cardiff-reg, British SS, Seville for Troon with iron ore. Gun attack by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig) at 0900, two shells fired, ship stopped and abandoned, single torpedo sank her 30 miles SW of Bishop Rock, Scillies (wi - in 49.33N, 07W); survivors picked up at 1430 by HMS Hope (not known if armed drifter or Plymouth-based destroyer), landed at Plymouth (H/L/Cn/te/un/wi)

Arracan, 5,520/1912, British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co and Burmah SS Co, Glasgow. Gun attack at entrance to English Channel, escaped (H/ms)

     

Monday, 6 March 1916

North Sea 

Two sailing smacks captured by UB.16 (Hans Valentiner) and sunk by bombs off Lowestoft:

SPRINGFLOWER, 59grt, Lowestoft for fishing. Sunk 28 miles E of (wi - in 52.30N, 02.25E) (H/L/un/wi)     

YOUNG HARRY, ketch-rigged, 43/1905, Lowestoft-reg LT288, Samuel E Jarmany, fishing. Sunk 35 miles E of (H/L/bm/un)

     

Wednesday, 8 March 1916

  Dover Straits

HARMATRIS, 6,387/1912, J & C Harrison, St John (NB) for Havre/Boulogne with hay, oats. (L - 7th) - Torpedoed by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck), sank  1/2 m NE by N of end of Boulogne Breakwater; 4 lives lost (H/L/te/un) 

off W Scotland 

Foreland, 1,960/1914, Shipping & Coal Co, Lon/1914, Shipping & Coal Co, London. U-boat attack off Isle of Islay, torpedo missed (Admiralty collier when sunk 12 February 1917) (H/ms)

 

Thursday, 16 March 1916

North Sea

Falcon (1), 675grt. U-boat attack 10 miles NW by W  1/2 W of N Hinder, torpedo missed (according to HMSO index, sunk 24/2/17 when measuring 2,244grt, but probably different vessel)     

Atlantic off SW Ireland      

Two vessels attacked by U.70 (Otto Wünsche) off Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork:

WILLIE, brigantine, 185/1874, Faversham-reg, A W Daniels ( 1/2 ), 7 crew, Mr L Balland, London/Northfleet for Cardiff with cement bagged/in barrels. Captured, sunk by gunfire 60 miles NW by W of (L - 51.42N, Skelligs Rock bearing ENE  1/2 N, 12m; wi - in 51.37N, 11.08W). Note: appears to have been blown well off course if sailing London for South Wales (H/L/Lr/wi) 

Berwindvale, 5,242/1911, Berwindvale SS Co (J Esplen), Liverpool, sailing Galveston for Avonmouth with wheat. Torpedoed by U.70 (Otto Wünsche) 30 miles W of Fastnet Rock (L - 20 miles SSW of Bull Rock LV), damaged, captured then rescued, put into Castletown (Berehaven) on 17th, beached and refloated (H/L/ms/un)

 

Saturday, 18 March 1916

North Sea

Steamship (and an Admiralty trawler) sunk by mines laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag):     

LOWLANDS, 1,789/1888, Newcastle-reg, Lowlands SS, Mr F Major, Hull for unknown destination with timber - deals, boards & battens. Confirmed as mortally damaged by UC.7 mine, 8 miles NE by E from North Foreland, but earlier accounts of how she was initially damaged, on or about the 18th, varied: (1) torpedoed in or around the Straits of Dover (HMSO - 8 miles NE by E of North Foreland; L/wi - 8 1/2 m NE  1/2 E of North Foreland Light) or (2) torpedoed off East Mersea, Essex in the North Sea (wi). The “Wreck Index” account continues that she was towed in by tug HMS Carcass “floating on her cargo only”, beached on Mucking Flats in the Thames on the 19th, patched up, refloated and towed round to the River Colne, the hull patch moved on passage, she started to fill. Pilot Harry French wanted to beach her on the Brightlingsea side but was ordered to put her ashore on the mud flats off East Mersea, from where she slid off into the navigable channel, broke her back, and became a total loss. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to raise her. Wreck lies in 51.48.06N, 01.00.13E, marked with green navigational warning light (H/L/te/un/wi)

English Channel

Lutterworth, 994grt. U-boat attack 21 miles N of Cape Antifer, torpedo missed (ms – believed passenger & cargo steamship, 1,002/1891, Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Ralway Co, Grimsby) (H/ms)

     

Sunday, 19 March 1916

North Sea

PORT DALHOUSIE, 1,744/1913, Kingston, Ontario-reg, Reuben A McLelland, Mr J Watson, Middlesbrough for Nantes with steel billets/ingots. Torpedoed by UB.10 (Reinhold Saltzwedel), sank 2 miles S  1/2 W of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary (L - 2 miles S by W of; wi - 2 miles S of, in 50.36.55N, 01.40E); 12 crew lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

    

Tuesday, 21 March 1916

Atlantic off W Ireland

ARANMORE, 1,050/1906, Glasgow-reg, Clyde Shipping, 23 crew, Mr D Coupland, Limerick for Glasgow with general cargo. Captured by U.43 (Hellmuth Jürst), sunk by torpedo 24 miles ENE of Eagle Is, off Co Mayo (wi - in 54.27N, 09.27W) (H/L/te/un/wi)

     

Wednesday, 22 March 1916

English Channel  

KELVINBANK (1), 4,209/1903, Glasgow SS, Buenos Aires for Havre with frozen meat, oats. (te/un - 24th) - Torpedoed by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck), sunk in Havre Roads, Seine estuary; one life lost (H/L/te/un)

 

Thursday, 23 March 1916

Dover Straits

Steamship (and an Admiralty trawler) lost in minefield laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow) off Ramsgate:

SEA SERPENT (1), 902/1898, London-reg, Leach & Co, 18 crew, Mr W Philps, Birkenhead/Liverpool for Dunkirk with corrugated iron for trench use on Western Front. Sank off Folkestone Pier (L - 1 mile W of Folkestone Gate; wi - 300yds off Sandgate buoy, in 51.02.06N, 01.11.28E); 14 crew lost including master; survivors landed at Dover (H/L/te/un/wi)      

St George's Channel

Eveline, 2,605/1897, Pyman, Bell & Co, Newcastle. U-boat attack 85 miles SW by S of Tuskar Rock, torpedo missed (H/ms)     

Mediterranean

Kaiser-i-Hind (ms – Kaisar…..), passenger ship, 11,430/1914, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Greenock, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms)     

Central Mediterranean

MINNEAPOLIS, troopship/passenger ship, 13,543/1900, London-reg, Atlantic Transport, armed, Marseilles for Alexandria in ballast with 189 people on board. Torpedoed by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) 195 miles E  1/2 N of Malta (L/te - in 36.30N, 18.22E), attempts made to tow her to Malta but sank on 25th (L - in 36.20N, 17.57E); 12 lives lost, survivors landed at Valetta (H/L/Mn/ge/te/un/wd)

     

Friday, 24 March 1916

U-boat Warfare - French cross-Channel steamer Sussex torpedoed without warning by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen) off Dieppe on the 24th, bows blown off and put into Boulogne next day. Among the passengers were 25 US citizens, some of them killed, leading in April to the US Government threatening to break off relations

North Sea  

FULMAR (2), 1,270/1902, Cork-reg, Cork SS, Rotterdam for Dunkirk with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 7 miles NE of N Foreland, Kent (L - 8 miles S by W  1/2 W of Kentish Knock LV; wi - 8 miles S by W of Kentish Knock LV, in 51.32N, 01.40E); master killed (H/L/te/un/wi)

Dover Straits

SALYBIA, 3,352/1904, London-reg, Scrutton, Sons & Co, Mr S Wilkinson, Trinidad for London with general cargo. Torpedoed by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sank 4 miles SW by W from Dungeness, Kent (wi - in 50.51.30N, 00.56.42E) (H/L/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off N Ireland

ENGLISHMAN (1), 5,257/1891, Liverpool-reg, Dominion Line, 106 crew, Mr W Moorehouse, Avonmouth for Portland (Me), 300t general cargo. Captured by U.43 (Hellmuth Jürst), sunk by torpedo 30 miles NE of Malin Head, Co Donegal (wi - in 55.45N, 07W); 10 crew lost (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off SW Ireland

Phrygia, 3,353/1900, Cunard SS Co, Liverpool, 1-6pdr, Mr F Manley. Gun attack 110 miles west of Fastnet Rock, submarine could not get on target because of heavy seas, Phrygia returned fire and gunners claimed two hits at 1,500yds; master MID (H/Mn/ms)

  Atlantic off SW England

FENAY BRIDGE, 3,838/1910, Fenay SS, Philadelphia for Hull with wheat. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by torpedo 54 miles W of Bishop Rock, Scillies (L/te - in 49.32N, 07.43W) (H/L/te/un)

 

Saturday, 25 March 1916 

Atlantic off SW England

Duendes, 4,602grt, St Johns (NB) for Plymouth with government stores. Gun attack 70 miles W of Scillies (L - in 50N, 9W), escaped, damaged according to Lloyds (ms – believed 4,452/1906, Pacific Steam Navigation Co, Liverpool) (H/L/Mn/ms/ms)

Inkonka, 3,430/1900, J T Rennie & Sons, armed. Attacked 160 miles W of Scillies, torpedo missed (H/ms)

 

Sunday, 26 March 1916

U-boat Warfare - First successful use of depth charges when Q-ship Farnborough dropped two on U.68

  North Sea

KHARTOUM, trawler, 303/1899, Hull-reg H472, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice, Skipper H Jameson, London for North Sea fishing grounds. Mined, laid by UC.5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), believed sank 5 miles NE by E of Longsand LV off the Thames (wi - in 51.53.12N, 01.46.38E); 9 lives lost. Note: HMSO places her loss 6 miles NE of Longstone LV off the Farne Is, suggesting “Longstone” has been substituted for "Longsand” (H/L/Lr/hw/wi)

CERNE, 2,579/1915, London-reg, Stephenson, Clarke, Mr J Brown, Newcastle for London with coal. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 4 miles NE of Elbow Buoy, off North Foreland, Kent (L - 8 miles SSW of Kentish Knock LV; wi - 10 1/2 m NE by E of North Foreland, in 51.28.29N, 01.40.09E). Vessel was insured for £48,000 (H/L/te/un/wi)

Dover Straits

SAINT CECILIA, 4,411/1913, Hogarth Shipping, Portland (Me) for London with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sank 4 miles from Folkestone LV (L - 4 miles E of) (H/L/te/un)

St George's Channel

Musician, 4,764/1894, Charente SS Co (T & J Harrison), Liverpool. Chased, escaped (H/ms)     

 

Monday, 27 March 1916

North Sea

EMPRESS OF MIDLAND, 2,224/1907, Montreal-reg, Canada Steamship Lines, Mr D Burke, Newcastle for Rouen with coal. Mined, laid by UC.1 (Egon von Werner), sank 9 miles S of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary (L/te - in 51.31N, 01.43E; wi - 9 1/2 m NE of North Foreland, in 51.27.31N, 01.39.44E). Vessel insured for £30,900 with Standard Assurance War Risk (H/L/te/un/wi)

St George's Channel

MANCHESTER ENGINEER (1), 4,302/1902, Manchester-reg, Manchester Liners, 32 crew, Mr R Worth, Philadelphia for Manchester with general cargo. Torpedoed at 0700 by U.44 (Paul Wagenführ), sank 20 miles W by S of Coningbeg LV, off Co Wexford (L/wi - 13 miles SSW of Waterford, in 51.55N, 06.57W) (H/L/te/wi)

     

Tuesday, 28 March 1916 

North Sea     

LAVINIA WESTOLL, 3,131/1895, Sunderland-reg, Westoll Line, 27 crew, Almeria for Middlesbrough with 4,880t iron ore. Mined, laid by UC.6 (un – unidentified U-boat), sank 33 miles SE by S of Spurn Head LV, Humber estuary (L - 33 miles SE of; wi - c30 miles SE of, in 53.04.27N, 00.51.12E) (H/L/te/un/wi)     

Atlantic off SW England

EAGLE POINT, 5,222/1900, Norfolk & North American SS, armed, St John (NB) for Havre with hay, oats. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by torpedo 100 miles WNW of Bishop Rock (L - 100 miles W of) (H/L/te/un)

          

Thursday, 30 March 1916 

North Sea 

Mallard, 1,300grt. Chased by U-boat 15 miles E 1/2 S of Inner Gabbard Bank Buoy, off Suffolk, escaped (ms – believed 1,250/1882) (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean

JOHN PRITCHARD (un – John Pritchard of Carnar), 3-mast schooner, 118/1906, Carnarvon-reg, R Pritchard, Patras for Caravassera in ballast. Captured by Austrian submarine U.4 (Rudolf Singule), sunk by bombs, off Santa Maura Is/Levkas, off W Greece (un – E of Paxos Island, off Santa Maria) (H/L/Lr/un)

     

Friday, 31 March 1916 

North Sea

ALACRITY, 1,080/1883, Belfast-reg, Harris Bros, Mr J Dickinson, sailed Havre 29th for Seaham Harbour in ballast, passed The Downs 30th/31st, went missing, posted by Lloyds 10/5/16, believed mined. Confirmed as laid by UC.5 (Ulrich Mohrbutter), sank off Lowestoft, Suffolk; 14 lives lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un)

Clinton, 3,381/1899, Deddington SS co (Samman), Hull, sailing Bombay for Hull with grain, manganese ore. Mined, laid by unidentified U-boat, 1 1/2 m S by E of Pakefield Gat Buoy, off Lowestoft (L - 4 miles SE of Lowestoft), beached North Roads, Lowestoft, refloated some time before 8 April 1916 (H/L/ms/un)

Atlantic off NW France

Two steamships sunk by U.44 (Paul Wagenführ) off Ushant island, off NW Brittany:

ACHILLES (1), 7,043/1900, Liverpool-reg, Ocean SS, armed, Sydney/Cape Town for London/Liverpool with cereals, wool. Torpedoed 90 miles WNW of (L - 91m W of); 5 lives lost (H/L/te/un)     

GOLDMOUTH, Admiralty chartered red-ensign oiler, 7,446/1903, London-reg, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, armed, Tarakan/Dakar for Falmouth with fuel oil. Captured, sunk by torpedo 60 miles WNW of (L - 60 miles NNW of); master taken prisoner (H/L/Lr/Mn/sl/te/un)



 

APRIL 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in April: 43 merchant ships totalling 141,193grt - 37 of 126,540grt to submarines, 6 of 14,653grt to mines, plus 3 fishing vessels totalling 216grt - 1 of 173grt to surface ships, 2 of 43grt to submarines (H)

U-boat warfare - the first large German minelayers came into commission, U.73 sailing for the Mediterranean and U.74 for more distant British waters in April. The smaller Flanders-based UC-boats continued to lay along the English coast from Flamborough Head to Lands End. Both the large minelayers soon claimed victims including battleship Russell, sloop Nasturtium, yacht Aegusa and armed trawler Crownsin all to U.73 off Malta. U.73 also laid mines on passage off Lisbon but was unable to lay off Gibraltar

 
Saturday, 1 April 1916

Zeppelin Airwar - During attack on English east coast, Navy airship L.15 (Production No. LZ.48) was damaged by land-based AA fire - the first such success, landed in the Thames Estuary near Knock Deep and surrendered to armed trawler Olivine

North Sea

PERTH, 653/1882, Liverpool-reg, Ince Shipping, 14 crew, Mr McDonald, Fecamp for Hull in ballast. Torpedoed by UB.16 (Hams Valentiner), fore part blown away, sank 1 mile SE by E of Cross Sand LV, off Caister-on-Sea, near Yarmouth (wi - in 52.36.29N, 02.01.42E); chief engineer and five crew forward at the time were killed, master and remaining crew got away in two boats and joined together in one, adrift for seven hours, picked up by pilot boat and landed at Yarmouth (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off SW Ireland 

BENGAIRN, 4-mast steel barque, 2,127grt, Liverpool-reg, J & J Rae, Seattle for Queenstown with wheat. Captured by U.28 (Georg-Gunther Freiherr von Forstner), sunk by gunfire 165 miles WSW of Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork (H/L/Lr/un)

Atlantic off NW France

ASHBURTON, 4,445/1905, London-reg, Australind SS, Wellington/Montevideo for London with wool, general cargo. Captured by U.44 (Paul Wagenführ), sunk by torpedo 80 miles WNW of Ushant (L - 74 miles NW by N of) (H/L/Mn/te)

 

Sunday, 2 April 1916

  Mediterranean 

Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:

Laomedon, passenger & cargo ship, 6,693/1912, China Mutual Steam Navigation Co (Alfred Holt, Liverpool) (H/ms)

Megantic, passenger liner, 14,878/1909, Oceanic Steam Navigation Co (Ismay, Imrie), Liverpool  (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean 

SIMLA, troopship/passenger ship, 5,884/1894, London-reg, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, armed, Marseilles via Malta for Egypt in ballast. Torpedoed in stokehold by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sank 45 miles NW 1/2 W of Gozo Is, Malta (L - 45 miles N 60 W of Gozo LH); 10 engine-room crew killed outright, survivors rescued by French patrol boat, landed Malta (H/L/Mn/te/un/wd)

 

Monday, 3 April 1916

North Sea

Brema, ex-German, 1,537/1904. U-boat attack between Shipwash and Longsand LV, torpedo missed. Sunk 19 August 1917 (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean

A laden collier (and an Admiralty-chartered collier) captured by U.34 (Claus Rücker) of Tunisia:

ELLASTON (1), 3,796/1906, Ellaston SS, Immingham for Gibraltar/Alexandria. Sunk by torpedo 65 miles NW by W of Cape Serrat (L - in 37.40N, 8E) (H/L/te/un)

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CLAN CAMPBELL, 5,897/1914, Glasgow-reg, Clan Line, armed, Tuticorn for London with cotton, foodstuff. Torpedoed by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk 29 miles SE of Cape Bon, NE Tunisia (H/L/Mn/te/un)

  

Tuesday, 4 April 1916

North Sea

BENDEW, 3,681/1909, Liverpool-reg, Admiral Nelson SS, Mr J Jones, Port Breira for Tyne with iron ore. Mined, laid by UC.1 (Egon von Werner), sank 9 miles S 1/2 E of Kentish Knock LV, off Thames Estuary (L - 6 miles SSE of; wi - 10 1/2 m NE of North Foreland, in 51.30.10N, 01.38.00E); one crew lost. Wreck dispersed by explosives 1917-18 (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Wednesday, 5 April 1916

Atlantic off SW Ireland

ZENT, 3,890/1905, Belfast-reg, Elders & Fyffes, 60 crew, Mr Martin, Garston/Liverpool for Santa Marta in ballast plus black stowaway, steaming at 13kts. Torpedoed twice by U.66 (Thorwald von Bothmer) at 2215, first in engine-room, second near No.3 hatch, men had taken their places in the boats which capsized as the ship sank within 2min, 28 miles W by S  1/2 S of Fastnet (L - 28 miles S54ºW of; wi - 28 miles S 1/2 W of, in 51.46N, 09.35W); 48 crew and the stowaway lost (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)

Mediterranean

Ganges (1), 4,177/1902, Mercantile SS Co, London. Gun attack, escaped. Sunk 30 July 1917 (H/ms) 

Western Mediterranean

CHANTALA, passenger ship, 4,951/1913, Glasgow-reg, British India Steam Navigation, armed, Mr E Hamlyn, Tees/London for Malta/Calcutta with general cargo. Torpedoed by U.34 (Claus Rücker) in engine-room and abandoned, stayed afloat, master returned to save her, U-boat surfaced, opened fire and finished her with time bombs, sank 15 miles N of Cape Bengut, Algeria (L/wd - 37.12N, 03.48E); 9 engine-room crew killed in the attack (H/L/te/wd)

        

Thursday, 6 April 1916

English Channel

VESUVIO, 1,391/1879, London-reg, General Steam Navigation, Mr Elgar, Messina for London with ammunition, general cargo. Mined, laid by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sank 6 miles E of Owers LV, off Selsey Bill, Sussex (wi - in 50.35.33N, 00.30.28W); 7 crew lost including master (H/L/te/un/wi)         

Atlantic off W Scotland

Vennacher, tanker,  4,700/1916, Vennacher SS Co (Gow, Harrison & Co), Glasgow, sailing Glasgow for Key West, possibly in ballast. Torpedoed by U.22 (Bruno Hoppe) 28 miles WNW of Skerryvore island (L - in 56.20N, 08.02W), arrived Lough Swilly (L - put back to Clyde on 8th) (H/L/un)

Western Mediterranean

YONNE, 4039/1897, Equinox SS, Clyde for Alexandria/New Caledonia with coal, coke. Torpedoed by U.34 (Claus Rücker), sank 18 miles NNW of Cape Shershel/Cherchel, Algeria (L/te - in 36.52N, 02E) (H/L/te)

 

Friday, 7 April 1916

English Channel

BRAUNTON, 4,575/1911, Cardiff-reg, Tatem Steam Navigation, Boulogne for Newport (Mon) with government stores, including empty steel shell heads and brass cases. Torpedoed by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sank 4 1/2 m S by W of Beachy Head, near Eastbourne (wi - in 50.38.54N, 00.10.45E) (H/L/te/un/wi)

CLYDE, brigantine, 204/1871, Faversham-reg, Whitstable Shipping, London for Dieppe with scrap iron. Captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck), sunk by bombs 32 miles N of Dieppe (L - 30 miles N of) (H/L/Lr/un)

Dover Straits

HALCYON, 1,319/1915, General Steam Navigation, Bordeaux for London with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sank 3 1/2 m SW by S of Folkestone Pier, Kent (H/L/te/un)     

W of Scotland

Danubian, tanker, 5,064/1909, Petroleum SS Co (Lane & MacAndrew), London. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)

 

Sunday, 9 April 1916 

North Sea

AVON, 1,574/1897, Grangemouth-reg, Carron & Co, Mr H Shaw, London for Leith with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 2 1/2 m SE by S of Tongue LV, off North Foreland, Kent (L/wi - 4 miles SE by S of, in 51.29.01N, 01.26.20E); 2 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off NW France

Two steamships captured and sunk by U.66 (Thorwald von Bothmer) off Ushant, off NW Britanny 

GLENALMOND, 2,888/1902, Austin Friars SS, Bilbao for Glasgow with iron ore. Sunk by torpedo 27 miles N of (L - 40 miles N of) (H/L/te/un)     

EASTERN CITY (1), 4,341/1913, St Just SS, St Nazaire for Barry Roads/Boston in ballast. Sunk by gunfire 18 miles N by W of (L - 18 miles NW of) (H/L/te/un)

Mediterranean

Polyxena, cargo steamship, ex-German, 5,737/1896, British Government, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 11 June 1917 (H/ms)

      

Monday, 10 April 1916 

North Sea

SILKSWORTH HALL, 4,777/1907, London-reg, Silksworth Hall SS, 33 crew, Mr E Owen, Hull for Philadelphia in ballast, at anchor. Torpedoed by UB.12 (Wilhelm Kiel), sank 1 1/2 m NE of Corton LV, near Lowestoft (wi - in 52.30.38N, 01.52.20E); 3 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)  

ROBERT ADAMSON, 2,978/1895, Sunderland-reg, Westoll Line, Mr A Dobbing, Dundee for Havre with pit props. (L/wi - 11th) - Torpedoed by UB.16 (Paul Hundius), sank 3 miles N by E of Shipwash LV, off Orford Ness (L/wi - 3 miles NNE of, in 52.03.56N, 01.46.52E) (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Tuesday, 11 April 1916

Atlantic off SW Ireland

INVERLYON, steel barque, 1,827/1904, Aberdeen-reg, G Milne, Portland (Ore) for Limerick with wheat. Captured by minelayer U.73 (Gustav Siess) on passage for the Mediterranean, sunk by gunfire 108 miles WNW of Fastnet (L - 108 miles W of) (H/L/Lr/ge/un)

Western Mediterranean

ANGUS, 3,619/1904, Dundee-reg, Angus Shipping, Calcutta for Barcelona/Bilbao with cotton, jute. Captured by U.34 (Claus Rücker), sunk by gunfire 76 miles E by N of Valencia, Spain (L/te - in 39.57N, 01.08E) (H/L/te/un)

 

Wednesday, 12 April 1916 

Western Mediterranean

ORLOCK HEAD, 1,945/1913, Head Line, Genoa/Valencia for Glasgow with general cargo. Captured by U.34 (Claus Rücker), sunk by gunfire 65 miles SE of Barcelona, Spain (L - 65 miles SE 1/2 E of) (H/L/te)

 

Thursday, 13 April 1916

Atlantic off SW Ireland

CHIC, 3,037/1914, London-reg, Preston Steam Navigation, 26 crew, Halifax (NS) for Manchester with 4,700t wood pulp, cruising at 9kts. Captured by U.22 (Bruno Hoppe), sunk by torpedo 45 miles SW of Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork (L - 41m SSW of; wi - in 50.40N, 10.25W); 9 crew lost (wi - 8), including master (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Friday, 14 April 1916

Dover Straits

SHENANDOAH, 3,886/1893, Liverpool-reg, Furness, Withy, Mr F Scott, St John (NB)/Halifax (NS) for London with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sank 1 1/2 m W of Folkestone Gate, Kent (L/wi - 1 1/2 m SW 1/2 W of North Gate LV, Folkestone, in 51.01.47N, 01.12.18E); 2 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)     

 

Saturday, 15 April 1916 

Atlantic off SW England

FAIRPORT, 3,838/1906, Port SS, Rosario for Manchester with wheat. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by torpedo 31 miles N by W of Bishop Rock, Scillies (L/te - in 50.18N, 06.52W) (H/L/te/un)

 

Sunday, 16 April 1916

Atlantic off SW England

HARROVIAN, 4,309/1914, Cambrian Steam Navigation, New York for Havre with general cargo. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by gunfire 60 miles W of Bishop Rock, Scillies (L - 60 miles WSW of) (H/L/te/un)

Atlantic off SW Ireland

CARDONIA, full-rigged steel ship, 2,169grt, Cardiff-reg, Cardonia Ltd, 25 crew, Seattle for Queenstown (Cobh) with bulk grain. Captured by U.67 (Hans Nieland), sunk by torpedo 20 miles S of Fastnet (wi - in 51.04N, 09.30W) (H/L/un/wi)

    

Tuesday, 18 April 1916

Atlantic off SW Ireland

RAVENHILL, full-rigged steel sailing ship, 1,826/1891, Belfast-reg, ‘Ravenhill’ Ship Co, 23 crew, Mr H Roberts, Port Natal/Durban via Queenstown for Falmouth with ‘kaffir corn’, maize, strong north westerly gale with heavy seas. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by gunfire 78 miles SE by S of Fastnet (wi - in 50.37N, 08.10W; L - 72 miles W by N  1/2 N of Bishop Rock) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)

 

Wednesday, 19 April 1916

U-boat Warfare - Following the attack on SS Sussex, the United States threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Germany. The German government ordered prize law to be followed, U-boats were withdrawn from British waters, although East coast minelaying and Mediterranean attacks continued, and for the next nine months they mainly supported High Seas Fleet operations. For the rest of the year, intense arguments took place in German ruling circles about whether or not unrestricted submarine warfare should be instituted even at the risk of bringing the US into the war. Meanwhile, U-boat commanders continued to sink British, Allied and neutral ships  

Atlantic off NW France

Sydney Reid, 2,852/1893, Reid Rigg & Thue, armed. Gun attack 30 miles off Ushant, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Thursday, 20 April 1916

North Sea

SABBIA, 2,802/1908, London-reg, The Admiralty, Burntisland for London with coal. Mined, laid by U.74 (Erwin Weisbach), sank 7 miles SE by S of May Is, Firth of Forth (L/te - in 56.07N, 02.18W; wi - 6 1/2 m NW off Dunbar, in 56.06.12N, 02.25.18W). U.74, one of the new large minelayers, laid a field between St Abbs Head and May Island across the southern exit from the Firth of Forth around this date (H/L/ge/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off SW Ireland

CAIRNGOWAN, 4,017/1911, Newcastle-reg, Cairn Line, 33 crew, Mr J Band, Liverpool for Newport News with coal. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by gunfire 60 miles W by N of Fastnet (L/te/wi - 55 miles W by N of, in 51.18N, 11.00W) (H/L/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off NW France

WHITGIFT, 4,397/1901, Westminster Shipping, Almeria for Tyne with iron ore. Torpedoed by U.67 (Hans Nieland), sank off Ushant; 32 lives lost including master (H/L/te/un)

 

Friday, 21 April 1916 

Atlantic off SW Ireland 

FELICIANA, 4,283/1909, London-reg, Bay SS, 36 crew, Mr H Coffin, London/Cardiff for New York (wi - Swansea for Philadelphia) in ballast. Torpedoed by U.19 (Raimund Weisbach), sank 67 miles W by N 1/2 N of Fastnet (L - 67 miles W 1/2 S true of; wi - 67 miles W by S of, in 51.19N, 11.21W) (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Saturday, 22 April 1916 

North Sea 

TREGANTLE, 3091/1903, St Ives-reg, Hain SS, 27 crew, Mr F Cundy, Galveston for Hull with wheat. Torpedoed by UB.16 (Paul Hundius), sank 1 1/2 m ESE of Corton LV, off Lowestoft (wi - in 52.32.57N, 01.55.01E) (H/L/te/un/wi)      

Atlantic off SW England 

ROSS, 2,666/1907, New Ross SS, Seville for Clyde with iron ore. Captured by U.19 (Raimund Weisbach), sunk by torpedo 108 miles W by N of Bishop Rock (L - 49.43N, 09.04W; te - in 48.75N, 08.05W) (H/L/te/un)

Atlantic off SW Ireland 

Norman Prince, 3,464/1900, Prince Line (Knott), Newcastle, armed. Gun attack 90 miles S of Fastnet, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Sunday, 23 April 1916 

Atlantic off NW France 

Two steamships captured by U.19 (Raimund Weisbach) and sunk by torpedo off Ushant island, off NW Brittany:

PARISIANA, 4,763/1911, Furness, Withy, London for Newport News with Fuller's earth, manure. Sunk 82 miles W  1/2 S of (L/te - in 47.55N, 7W) (H/L/te/un)

RIBSTON (1), Admiralty collier, 3,048/1906, West Hartlepool-reg, Ribston SS, Cardiff for Mediterranean port with coal. Sunk 66 miles W by S of (L/te - in 47.55N, 06.32W) (H/L/Lr/te/un) 

Mediterranean

Bonvilston, 2,866/1893, E Thomas, Radcliffe, Cardiff, armed. Torpedo missed. Sunk 17 October 1918 (H/ms)

 

Monday, 24 April 1916

UB.13 probably sunk in the new British minefield off Belgian coast

 

Tuesday, 25 April 1916

North Sea

ALFRED, ketch-rigged sailing smack, 24/1897, Ramsgate-reg, was R166, but may have changed, owned by S Down, Lowestoft for fishing. (un – 26th) - Captured by UB.18 (Oto Steinbrinck), sunk by bomb 27 miles E by S of Lowestoft, Suffolk (wi - in 52.20N, 02.25E) (H/L/bm/un/wi)

A number of mercantile vessels were sunk or damaged, either by German warships at sea or during a bombardment of Lowestoft, including:

HORUS, trawler, 173/1899, Grimsby-reg, Roberts & Ruthven, fishing. Captured by German Squadron, not known how sunk; crew taken prisoner (H/L/Lr/gy)

F. D. Lambert, 2,195 (ms – 2,214)/1892, J Westoll, Sunderland, sailing Almeria for Hartlepool with ore. Damaged by warship gunfire 5 miles ESE of Gorleston Pier, during bombardment of Lowestoft. Sunk 13 February 1917 (H/L/ms)

  

Thursday, 27 April 1916 

UC.5 grounded off Harwich, scuttled on arrival of destroyer Firedrake, raised and exhibited in Britain

Atlantic off SW Ireland

INDUSTRY (1), 4,044/1888, J H Welsford, Barry for Newport News in ballast. Captured by U.45 (Erich Sittenfeld), sunk by torpedo 120 miles W by N of Fastnet (L/te - in 51.11N, 12.46W) (H/L/te/un)

  

Friday, 28 April 1916

North Sea 

BLESSING, motor fishing vessel, 19grt, Tynemouth for fishing. Captured by UB.27 (Victor Dieckmann), sunk by bomb 16 miles E by N of Tynemouth (wi - in 55.03.30N, 00.58W) (H/L/un/wi)

 

Saturday, 29 April 1916

North Sea

Two steamships attacked by UB.27 (Victor Dieckmann) off Co Durham:

TEAL (1), passenger ship, 716/1876, London-reg, General Steam Navigation, 19 crew, Mr W Hove, Leith for London, weather foggy. UB.27 appeared on the starboard beam around 0820 and fired a torpedo which Teal avoided, then opened fire, master stopped engines and ordered abandon ship about 0830. UB.27 went alongside, set a number of scuttling charges which failed to sink her, then went off after another merchant ship (possibly SS Wandle following). Returned about 0930, fired a torpedo which “blew her to pieces” 2 miles E of Seaham Harbour (L/wi - 3 miles E of, in 54.49.45N, 01.14W); master and crew reached Hartlepool in their own boats (H/L/te/un/wi)    :  

Wandle, cargo ship, 889/1909, Wandsworth & Putney Gas Light & Coke Co, London, armed, sailing South Shields for London with coal. Gun attack 15 miles SSE of Souter Point, Durham (L - about 15 miles ESE of), damaged but saved by own gunfire (H/L/ms/un)

Atlantic off NW France 

Sussex, 5,686grt. Gun attack 100 miles W of Ushant, escaped (ms – believed passenger & cargo vessel, 5,474/1900, Federal Steam Navigation Co) (H/ms)

 

Sunday, 30 April 1916

Central Mediterranean

CITY OF LUCKNOW (1), 3,677/1896, Glasgow-reg, G Smith & Sons ( 1/2 ), armed, Alexandria for Liverpool with onions. Torpedoed by U.21 (Otto Hersing), sank 60 miles E of Malta (L - 84 miles E of). U.21 was returning from North Africa with a Turkish mission (H/L/ge/te/un)

 



 

MAY 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in May: 20 merchant ships totalling 64,521grt - 12 of 42,165grt to submarines, 8 of 22,356grt to mines, plus 5 fishing vessels totalling 201grt, all to submarines (H)

 

Monday, 1 May 1916

North Sea

HENDONHALL, 3,994/1901, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation, Portland (Me) for Rotterdam with grain. Mined, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), sank 2 miles S  1/2 E of Inner Gabbard Buoy, off Orford Ness, Suffolk (H/L/te/un)

Atlantic off NW France

MAUD, schooner, 120/1896, Jersey-reg, J P Tocque, Jersey for Cadiz in ballast. (L/un - 2nd) - Captured by U.45 (Erich Sittenfeld), sunk by gunfire 50 miles SW by W of Ushant (L - SW  1/2 W of) (H/L/Lr/un)

Bay of Biscay 

Phrygia, 3,353/1900, Cunard SS Co, Liverpool, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Tuesday, 2 May 1916 

North Sea  

ROCHESTER CITY, 1,239/1910, Sunderland-reg, William A Watson, 17 crew, Mr A Hardy, Sunderland/Seaham Harbour for Rochester with 1,700t coal. Mined at 0520, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), listed to port and sank by the bow 3 miles E of Southwold, Suffolk (wi - 52.20.22N, 01.46.30E); one crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

Atlantic off NW France 

RUABON, 2,004/1891, British SS, Seville for Troon with iron ore. Captured by U.20 (Walther Schweiger), sunk by torpedo 160 miles W by S 1/2 S of Ushant (L - 188 miles SW of Scilly) (H/L/te/un)

Bay of Biscay 

Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire: 

Clan MacFadyen, 2,816/1889, Clan Line, Glasgow, sailing Mauritius for London with general cargo. Damaged according to Lloyds (H/L/ms)

Port Augusta, 4,063/1906, Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co (W Millburn & Co), London (H/ms)

 

Wednesday, 3 May 1916 

Bay of Biscay

Clan Lindsay, 3,937/1902, Clan Line, Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

     

Saturday, 6 May 1916

North Sea 

Theodor, sailing vessel, 230grt, Leith for Rouen with coal. Damaged in U-boat attack off Sheringham, run ashore 1 mile WNW of Sheringham, refloated (L only)

Lestris, 1,384/1905. Cork SS Co, Cork. Chased 8 miles E of North Hinder, escaped (H/ms)

Atlantic off NW France 

GALGATE, 4-mast steel barque, 2,356/1888, Galgate Co, Mr W Griffiths, Portland (Ore) for Falmouth with barley. Captured by U.20 (Walther Schweiger), sunk by gunfire 170 miles W by N of Ushant (L - 190 miles SW by W 1/2 W of Lizard); no lives lost. According to a contemporary account in the “New York Times” dated 14/5/16, she hove to when signalled to abandon ship at “great risk from high seas" and was then torpedoed; one boat with 13 men was still missing, a second boat with 12 men had safely reached Brest. Presumably the first boat turned up safely (H/L/Lr/un/www)
 

Monday, 8 May 1916 

Atlantic off SW Ireland

CYMRIC, passenger ship, 13,370/1898, Liverpool-reg, Oceanic Steam Navigation, c110 crew, Mr F Beadnell, New York for Liverpool with general cargo, 6 passengers. Torpedoed by U.20 (Walther Schweiger), sank 140 miles WNW of Fastnet (L - 138 miles W true of; wi - in 51.14N, 13.28W; wd - torpedoed on 7th, sank 8th); 5 crew lost (wi - 4 lives) (H/L/te/wd/un/wi)

 

Tuesday, 9 May 1916

Mediterranean 

Ramore Head, 4,444/1891, Ulster SS Co (G Heyn & Sons), Belfast, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Wednesday, 10 May 1916

Dover Straits

DOLCOATH, 1,706/1882, James Mitchell, Tyne/Hull for Cette with coal. Mined, laid by UC.7 (Georg Haag), sank 3 1/2 m NNE of North Foreland, Kent (L - 3 1/2 m SE by S of North Spit Buoy); one life lost (H/L/te/un)

 

Friday, 12 May 1916

Bay of Biscay

Pagenturm, 5,000/1909, was German Hansa Line, armed. Chased, escaped. Sunk 16 May 1917 (H/ms)

 

Saturday, 13 May 1916

Bay of Biscay

ERETRIA, 3,464/1901, SS Eretria Co, Tampa for La Pallice with phosphate rock. (L -12th) - Mined, laid by unknown UC-boat, sank 15 miles SSW of lle D'Yeu, S of St Nazaire (L - 16 miles S 34 W true of) (H/L/ge/te)

Atlantic off NW Spain

East Wales, 4,331 (ms – 4,321)/1915, East Wales SS Co (Gibbs & Co), Cardiff. Gun attack off Cape Finisterre, escaped (H/ms)
      

Wednesday, 17 May 1916 

U.74 sunk by accidental explosion of one of her mines off Dunbar, Scotland (un – previously recorded as sunk by four trawlers including Kimberley off Peterhead on 27 May)

North Sea  

Four sailing smacks, all believed Lowestoft-reg and fishing, captured by U-boats and sunk by bombs:

By UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck):

RESEARCH (2), ketch-rigged, 44/1906, Lowestoft-reg LT1028, J Jackman. Sunk 35 miles E of Cromer, Norfolk (wi - in 52.58N, 02.17E); one life lost (H/L/bm/wi)

By UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), all of Southwold, Suffolk:

BOY SAM, 46grt. No lives listed as lost in HMSO. Note: email from Mr John Meadows of Lowestoft - his paternal grandfather William Meadows and others were lost (H/jm/un)

BOY PERCY, 46grt (H/jm/un)

WANDERER, 47grt (H/jm/un)     
Eastern Mediterranean 

Rooke, 3,391/1908, British Government, armed, Cardiff for Alexandria with general cargo. Gun attack 150 miles from Alexandria, saved by own gunfire, damaged according to Lloyds (H/L/ms)
 

Thursday, 18 May 1916 

North Sea 

OSPREY (2), motor fishing vessel, c18grt 1892, Hull-reg H64, fishing. Captured by UB.19 (Walter Gustav Becke), sunk by bomb 13 miles ENE of Spurn LV, Humber (L - 9 miles E by N of) (H/L/hw/un)
      


Friday, 19 May 1916

Dover Straits

Two steamships attacked by aircraft in Dunkirk Docks, more attacks took place over the weekend:

Ernst, 653/1915, was owned by E A Corfitzon, Helsinki, sold to Harrison Sons in 1916 and renamed Denetown. Slightly damaged by machine gun fire (H/ms)

Seattle, 5,133/1911, G W Bruenich. Bombed and damaged; one life lost (H/L/ms)

 

Saturday, 20 May 1916

Dover Straits

Lord Strathcona, 7,335/1915, Lord Curzon SS Co (Herron), Liverpool, sailing Halifax for Dunkirk with government stores. Bombed in Dunkirk Docks, lightly damaged; one life lost (H/L/ms)

 

Sunday, 21 May 1916 

Dover Straits 

Ernst, 653/1915, was owned by E A Corfitzon, Helsinki, sold to Harrison Sons in 1916 and renamed Denetown. Bombed in Dunkirk Docks, lightly damaged, second attack in two days (H/ms)

Valentia, 3,242/1898, International Line SS Co (Marwood), Whitby, sailing Mobile for Dunkirk. Slightly damaged in the aircraft attacks (Admiralty collier when sunk 16 July 1917) (H/ms)

 

Monday, 22 May 1916 

North Sea

RHENASS, 285/1914, West Hartlepool-reg, Durham Steam Shipping Co, 10 crew, Mr W Brierley, Jarrow for Calais with 285t of cast iron ingots/pigs. Mined, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), sank off Aldeburgh, N of Orford Ness (L/wi - 9 miles E by N of Orford Ness, in 52.09.01N, 01.48.37E); 6 crew lost (H/L/un/Lr/wi)

     

Friday, 26 May 1916 

North Sea

EL ARGENTINO, 6,809/1907, Liverpool-reg, Argentine Cargo Line ( 1/2 ), 1-4.7in, 64 crew, Mr H Goodrick, Hull for London/Buenos Aires in ballast. Mined, laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien), sank 7 miles SE by S of Southwold, Suffolk (L/wi - 6 miles SE by S of, in 52.13.29N, 01.47.25E) (H/L/te/un/wi)

DENEWOOD, 1,221/1905, London-reg, Cory Colliers, 17 crew, Mr J Snowling, Tyne for London with coal. Mined under forehatch at 1605, laid by UC.3 (Günther Kreysern), crew abandoned ship, foundered at 1613 off Aldeburgh, N of Orford Ness (L - in Cowhithe Roads; wi - in 52.09N, 01.36.30E); survivors landed at Lowestoft (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Saturday, 27 May 1916

UC.3 probably sunk in British minefield N of Zeebrugge

Mediterranean

Media, 5,437/1911, Anchor Line (Henderson Bros), Glasgow, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
 

Sunday, 28 May 1916

Western Mediterranean

LADY NINIAN, 4,297/1906, Redcroft Steam Navigation, Newport News for Leghorn with oats, steel rails. Captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk by gunfire 106 miles NE  1/2 N of Algiers, Algeria (L/te - in 38.20N, 04.08E); one life lost (H/L/te/un)

 

Monday, 29 May 1916 

Western Mediterranean  

Following the successes of the two previous days, U.39 (Walter Forstmann) captured and sank three more steamships, this time all in ballast, off Algiers: 

BARON VERNON, 1,779/1912, Ardrossan-reg, Kelvin Shipping, Savona for Seville. Sunk by gunfire 56 miles NE  1/2 N of (L/te - in 37.36N, 03.37E) (H/L/te/un)

ELMGROVE, 3,018/1896, SS Elmgrove Co, Toulon for Huelva. Sunk by gunfire 96 miles NE of (L/te - in 34N, 4E) (H/L/te/un)

SOUTHGARTH, 2,414/1891, William D C Balls & Son, Marseilles for Benisaf. Sunk by bombs 60 miles NNE of (L - about 60 miles E of) (H/L/te/un)

 

Tuesday, 30 May 1916

Western Mediterranean 

JULIA PARK, 2,900/1894, Sun Shipping, Liverpool for Alexandria with coal. Captured by U.34 (Claus Rücker), sunk by torpedo, 10 miles N of Cape Carbon, near Bougie/Bejaia, Algeria (L - ”10 miles N, 12 miles W of”) (H/L/te/un)

Two more steamships captured and sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Algeria:

DALEGARTH, 2,265/1889, Newcastle-reg, Hanson, Brown & Co ( 1/2 ), armed, Limni for Clyde with magnesite. Sunk by torpedo 12 miles NE of Cape Corbelin, near Bougie (L - 10 miles NW of Cape Sigli) (H/L/te/un)

BARON TWEEDMOUTH, 5,007/1907, Liverpool-reg, Hogarth Shipping, Clyde for Alexandria with coal. Sunk by gunfire 25 miles NE by N of Cape Carbon (L - in 37.10N 05.15E) (H/L/te/un)
 

Wednesday, 31 May 1916 

Battle of Jutland, to 1 June     



 
 

JUNE 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in June: 16 merchant ships totalling 36,976grt - 1 of 1,380grt to surface ships, 11 of 33,849grt to submarines, 4 of 1,747grt to mines (H)

U.10 probably mined in Gulf of Finland during the month

   

Thursday, 1 June 1916

North Sea

Parkgate, 3,232/1906, Parkgate SS Co (Turnbull, Scott), London, sailing Alexandria for Hull with cotton seed and grain. Mined, laid by UC.10 (Alfred Nitzsche), 2 miles ENE of Sunk Buoy, off Harwich (L - 1 1/2 m ESE of Sunk LV), beached Mucking Flats, Canvey Is area, refloated. Sunk 4 April 1917 (H/L/ms/un) 

Mediterranean 

Maryland, passenger & cargo ship, 4,731/1913, Atlantic Transport Co, Belfast, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms) 

Western Mediterranean

A further two steamships captured and sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), this time off Cape Carbon, Algeria bringing her total to 9 British sinkings in 6 days: 

DEWSLAND, 1,993/1883, J & P Hutchinson, Philippeville for Penarth with lead, shumac (dried leaves used in tanning). Sunk by gunfire 28 miles NE by E of (L/te - in 37.07N, 05.30E) (H/L/te/un) 

SALMONPOOL, 4,905/1913, Pool Shipping, Naples for Baltimore in ballast. Sunk by torpedo 30 miles NE by E of (L/te - in 37.10N 05.30E) (H/L/te/un)

 

Friday, 2 June 1916

Mediterranean

Cypria, 2,950 (ms – 2,935)/1898, Cunard SS Co, Liverpool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
 

Saturday, 3 June 1916 

North Sea

GOLCONDA, passenger ship, 5,874/1887, Glasgow-reg, British India Steam Navigation, 210 crew, Mr G Sinclair, Middlesbrough/London for Calcutta with general cargo. Torpedoed by UC.3 (Günther Kreysern), sank 5 miles SE by E of Aldeburgh, N of Orford Ness (L/wd/wi - 6 1/2 m E of Orford Ness, in 52.08.18N, 01.44.33E); 5th engineer, 2 stewardess', 16 Indian crew lost (H/L/te/tr/un/wd/wi)

 

Friday, 9 June 1916 

Mediterranean

Malakand, cargo ship, 7,653/1905, T & J Brocklebank, Liverpool, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms)
 

Thursday, 15 June 1916 

NW Mediterranean

SARDINIA (1), 1,119/1895, Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet, Genoa for London with general cargo. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by gunfire 38 miles W 1/2 N of Gorgona Is, off Leghorn, Italy (L - 50 miles W  1/2 N of) (H/L/te/un)

 

Friday, 16 June 1916 

NW Mediterranean

One, possibly two steamships attacked by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière):

GAFSA (1), 3,922/1906, English & American Shipping, Swansea for Genoa with coal, patent coal fuel. Captured by U.35, sunk by gunfire 80 miles SW by S of Genoa, Italy (H/L/te/un) 

Clodmoor, 3,753/1902, Moor Line Ltd (Runciman), London, armed, sailing Baltimore for Genoa with oats and steel. U-boat gun attack 62 miles S of Genoa, saved by own gunfire, damaged according to Lloyds (H/L/ms)

      

Saturday, 17 June 1916 

Mediterranean 

Uganda (1), 5,431 (ms – 5,366)/1898, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sank 29 May 1918 (H/ms)

 

Sunday, 18 June 1916 

North Sea

Thurso, 1,244/1909, Thomas Wilson Sons & Co, Hull. Chased 3 miles NNW of Longstone LH, Outer Farne Is, escaped. Sunk 27 September 1916 (H/ms)

Western Mediterranean

Two, possibly three steamships attacked by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière):

BEACHY, 4,718/1909, Glasgow-reg, Clyde Shipping, Calcutta/Marseilles for Hull with manganese ore, general cargo. Captured by U.35, sunk by torpedo 98 miles NE by E of Port Mahon, Minorca (L - 110 miles W by S of Cape Falcone, Sardinia) (H/L/te/un)

RONA, 1,312/1884, Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet, Genoa for Lisbon with general cargo. Captured by U.35, sunk by gunfire 90 miles W of Cape Falcone, Sardinia (L/te - 212 miles SW by S of Cape Mele, Gulf of Genoa) (H/L/te/un)

Le Coq, tanker, 3,419 (ms – 3,399)/1895, H F Swan (Lane & MacAndrew), Newcastle, armed, Marseilles for New York in ballast. U-boat gun attack (L - in 41.10N, 05.50E), saved by own gunfire, damaged according to Lloyds (H/L/ms)

  

Tuesday, 20 June 1916

Mediterranean

Malda, passenger & cargo ship, 7,884/1913, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire, first of four attacks in 1916. Sunk 25 August 1917 (H/ms)
 


Wednesday, 21 June 1916

North Sea 

CORTON LV, 173grt, London-reg, Trinity House Corporation, 7 crew, on station. Drifting mine fouled moorings and exploded at 0900, sank immediately 4 miles NE by E of Lowestoft, Suffolk, near Corton Sands (L - in 52.31.30N, 01.50E); 5 crew lost, two survivors saved by a patrol vessel (H/L/wi)
 


Friday, 23 June 1916 

North Sea

BURMA (1), 706/1891, Goole-reg, Bennett SS, Mr W Watkins, London for Goole in ballast. Mined, laid by UC.6 (Otto Ehrentraut), sank 5 miles N by E  1/2 E of Shipwash Bank LV, off Orford Ness (wi - also 15 miles E of Harwich, in 52.07.13N, 01.45.11E); 7 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

BRUSSELS, passenger ship, 1,380/1902, Harwich-reg, Great Eastern Railway, Mr Charles Fryatt, Tilbury for Hook. Captured by German destroyers/torpedo boats off Dutch Coast, taken into Zeebrugge; crew taken prisoner, master executed by German firing squad for attempting to ram a U-boat during a previous attack. Torpedoed by British forces 14/10/18; raised 4/8/19, sold back into service (H/L/www)

  

Saturday, 24 June 1916

Mediterranean 

Ashby, cargo ship, 1,947/1896, R Ropner & Co, armed. Gun attack, rescued (Admiralty collier Ashby, also 1,947grt, wrecked 15 February 1916 - if these were the same vessels, the attack took place after the loss date according to HMSO. Miramar also confirms 15 February 1916) (H/ms)

Western Mediterranean

CANFORD CHINE, 2,398/1903, Cardiff-reg, Canford Chine SS, Marseilles to Porman, in ballast. Captured by U.35, sunk by gunfire 5 miles off Calella, near Barcelona, Spain (L - 35 miles E of Barcelona) (H/L/te)
 


Sunday, 25 June 1916

Mediterranean

Mexico City, 5,078/1896, Eng Hok Fong SS Co, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

 

Monday, 26 June 1916

North Sea  

Steamship (and Admiralty trawler) mined in new field laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien) off Lowestoft, Suffolk:

ASTROLOGER, 912/1890, Leith-reg, George Gibson, 19 crew, Mr J Boyd, Leith for Dunkirk with 1,200t coal, general cargo. Mined under forward hold at 0530, laid by UC.1, sank almost immediately 5 miles SSE of (L -  1/2  mile E of SE Newcome Buoy; wi - in 52.24.20N, 01.50.05E); 11 crew lost including master, 8 survivors picked up from the water by a fishing boat, transferred to patrol vessel, landed at Lowestoft (H/L/te/un/wi)  

Mediterranean 

Eloby, 6,545grt, armed. Torpedo missed (ms – believed 4,820/1913, British & African Steam Navigation Co (Elder Dempster), Liverpool, sunk 19 July 1917)  (H/ms) 

 

Tuesday, 27 June 1916

Western Mediterranean

WINDERMERE, 2,292/1904, Cardiff SS (ms – Appleby Shipping co, Cardiff), sailing Tyne for Savona with coal. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), scuttled 58 miles SSE of Port Mahon, Minorca (L/te - in 39.50N, 5E); 12 lives lost including master (H/L/ms/te/un)
 


Wednesday, 28 June 1916

North Sea

MERCURIUS, dredger, 129t net, London-reg, Tilbury Contracting & Dredging, unarmed and carrying no W/T code books or confidential papers, 7 crew, Southampton for Immingham, under tow by tug Danube II. Mined at 0600, laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien), sank immediately 3 miles SE of Lowestoft (wi - in 52.26.35N, 01.49.30E); 6 crew lost, only mate saved, picked up by patrol vessel and landed at Lowestoft (H/L/wi)

 

Thursday, 29 June 1916

Central Mediterranean

TEANO, 1,907/1913, Thomas, Wilson, Sons & Co, Hull, sailing Hull for Naples with coal, general cargo. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), scuttled 24 miles NW by N of Marittimo Is, off Sicily (L/te - in 38.15N, 11.45E) (H/L/ms/te/un)

 

Friday, 30 June 1916 

Eastern Mediterranean

MOERIS, 3,409/1902, Moss SS, armed, Glasgow for Malta/Alexandria with general cargo. Torpedoed by UB.44 (Franz Wäger), sank 46 miles SE of Cape Sidero, Crete (L/te - in 34.50N, 26.58E); 3 lives lost (H/L/te/un)



  

JULY 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in July: 28 merchant ships totalling 82,432grt - 2 of 4,710grt to surface ships, 21 of 69,962grt to submarines, 5 of 7,760grt to mines, plus 36 fishingvessels totalling 2,796grt, all to submarines (H)

 

Sunday, 2 July 1916

Black Sea

ROCKLIFFE, 3,073/1904, Cliffe SS (rf - transport No.55). Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner) off Sochi, Caucasus coast, finished off by gunfire of German-Turkish light cruiser Breslau on 4th (H/L/rf/te/un)

 

Tuesday, 4 July 1916

North Sea

QUEEN BEE, sailing smack (wi - fitted with steam engine), 34grt, fishing. Captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voigt), sunk by bomb 28 miles NE of Scarborough, Yorkshire (L/wi - 25 miles E by N of Whitby, in 54.32.30N, 00.06.30E); skipperlost his life (H/L/un/wi)
 

Wednesday, 5 July 1916

North Sea

Two fishing vessels fishing captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voight) and sunk by bombs off Tynemouth (five more the following day):

PEEP O' DAY, (L/wi - trawler), 52grt, Tynemouth for fishing. Sunk 25 miles ENE of (wi - in 55.10N, 00.45W) (H/L/un/wi)     

ANNIE ANDERSON, motor fishing vessel, 77grt, North Shields for fishing. Sunk 16 miles E by S of (L/wi - 16 miles ESE of, in54.56N, 00.57W) (H/L/un/wi)

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LESTRIS, passenger ship, 1,384/1905, Cork SS Co, Cork-reg, sailing Liverpool for Rotterdam. Captured by German destroyer/torpedo boat between Maas LV & Schouwenbank, taken intoZeebrugge; crew taken prisoner. Found sunk in Bruges Canal following the German evacuation in October 1918, raised, repaired in 1926 (H/L/Lr)

Mediterranean

Reynolds, 3,264/1898, Bolton Steam shipping Co, London, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 26 April 1917 (H/ms)

     

Thursday, 6 July 1916

U-boat Warfare - UC.7 continues to be identified as the first U-boat detected by hydrophone and then claimed sunkby depth charges for the first time, although she was probably lost N of Zeebrugge in a British minefield

North Sea

Five more fishing vessels, on or returning from fishing grounds, captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voight) and sunk by bombs off Tynemouth:

NEWARK CASTLE, (L/wi - trawler), 85grt, from Tynemouth. Sunk 23 miles SE of (wi - in 55.48N, 00.50W) (H/L/un/wi)

PETUNIA, (L/wi - trawler), 58grt, from Tynemouth. Sunk 18 miles ESE of (wi - in 54.56N, 00.57W), crew allowed to abandon ship but one life lost(H/L/un/wi)

NANCY HUNNAM, (L/wi - trawler), 58grt, from Tynemouth. Sunk 24 miles E by S of (wi - in 54.54N, 00.43W) (H/L/un/wi)

GIRL BESSIE, (L/wi - trawler), 62grt, from Tynemouth. Sunk 23 miles SE by E of (wi - in 54.51N, 00.47W) (H/L/un/wi)

WATCHFUL, motor fishing vessel, 52grt, from North Shields. Sunk 23 miles SE by S of (wi - in 54.52N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)

 

Friday, 7 July 1916

U.77 possibly mined in northern North Sea after the 7th

North Sea

GANNET, passenger ship, 1,127/1879, General Steam Navigation Co, London-reg, Mr F Cole, sailing Rotterdam for London with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.6 (Otto Ehrentraut), sank 5 miles ENE of Shipwash LV, off Orford Ness (wi - in52.06.30N, 01.47.30E); 8 lives lost (H/L/te/un/wi)

 

Saturday, 8 July 1916

North Sea

PENDENNIS, 2,123/1897, Pendennis SS Co, Falmouth-reg. (un – 6 August 1916) – Captured by U.48 (Berndt Buss), taken as prize into Borkum Roads, Germany; crew taken prisoner. Released post-war (H/L/Lr/un)

 

Monday, 10 July 1916

Skagerrak

CALYPSO, passenger ship, 2,876/1904, Wilson Line, Hull-reg, sailed London on 7th for Christiania (now Oslo) with general cargo, passed Flamborough Head 9th, went missing, posted by Lloyds 30 August 1916. (te/un - 11th) - Confirmed as torpedoed by U.53 (Hans Rose), sank off Lindesnes, Norway (un – about 15 miles W of Listafjord); 30 lives lost including master, no survivors (H/L/te/un)     

North Sea

KARA, 2,338/1889, London & Paris SS Co, London-reg, 22 crew, Mr E Badcock, Rouen for South Shields in ballast. Badly damaged by explosion port side amidships at 1900 near Pakefield Gat Buoy, offLowestoft, mine laid by UC.6 (Otto Ehrentraut), apparently broke her back but remained afloat, crew abandonedship, taken in tow by tug and beached on Corton Sands (wi - in 52.31.20N, 01.48.25E), total wreck; boats towed into Lowestoft by Lowestoft lifeboat(H/L/te/un/wi)

STAFFA, trawler, 176/1905, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co, Hull-reg H814, fishing. Captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), sunk by bomb 45 miles E by N of the Tyne (H/L/Lr/hw/un)

 

Thursday, 13 July 1916

North Sea

Four fishing vessels fishing captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), apparently moving north up the English coast - see 14th:

DALHOUSIE, (L/wi - trawler), 89grt. Sunk 10 miles NNE of Whitby (wi - in 54.38N, 00.28W) (H/L/un/wi)

MARY ANN (
1), sail fishing boat, 5grt. Scuttled 13 miles N by E of Whitby (wi - in 54.42N, 00.30W) (H/L/un/wi)

SUCCESS
(2), sail fishing boat, 6grt. Scuttled 13 miles N by E of Whitby (wi - in 54.42N, 00.30W) (H/L/un/wi)

FLORENCE, trawler, 149/1894, Scarborough-reg, Reliable Steam Fishing, Skipper D Crawford, Scarborough for fishing. (wi - 15th) - Sunk by bomb 10 miles NE of Scarborough (L/wi - 13 miles N by E of Whitby, in54.43N, 00.35W) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)

 

Friday, 14 July 1916

U.51 torpedoed and sunk by British submarine H.5 off Ems estuary, Germany

North Sea

Five more fishing vessels fishing captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) and sunk by bombs

BEN ADEN, trawler, 176/1900, R H Davison, Hartlepool-reg, Skipper D Casey, from Hartlepool. Sunk 15 miles E of Hartlepool (wi - in 54.43N, 00.44W) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)

GIRL’S FRIEND, (L/wi - trawler), 55grt. Sunk 21 miles E of Hartlepool (wi - in 54.44N, 00.34W) (H/L/un/wi)

BUTE, trawler, 176/1905, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co, Hull-reg H819, Skipper A Podmore, from Tynemouth. Sunk 25 miles SE of Tynemouth (wi - in 54.44N, 00.51W) (H/L/Lr/hw/un/wi)

LANGLEY CASTLE (L/wi - trawler), 93grt, from Tynemouth. Sunk 18 miles NE by E of the Tyne (wi - in 55.08N, 00.58W) (H/L/un/wi)

RECORDER, trawler, 149/1901, Reaver Fishing Co, North Shields-reg, Skipper J Warren, from North Shields. Sunk 16 miles NE by E of Tynemouth (L/wi - 15 miles NNE  1/2 E of, in 55.15N, 01.14W)(H/L/Lr/un/wi)

Western Mediterranean

Two steamships captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Algeria:

ANTIGUA, 2,876/1903, G B Harland, West Hartlepool-reg, sailing La Goulette for Middlesbrough with iron ore. Sunk by bombs 20 miles E by N of Jidjelli/Djedjelli (L/te - in 36.57N, 06.11E)(H/L/te/un)

ECCLESIA, 3,714/1904, Griffiths Lewis Steam Navigation, sailing Norfolk (Va) for Taranto with coal. Sunk by gunfire 11 miles NW of Bougaroni Point, near Philippeville (now Skikda)(H/L/te/un)     

 

Saturday, 15 July 1916

Western Mediterranean

SYLVIE, 1,302/1878, Gabriel Tewfik Karam, sailing Cartagena for Bona in ballast. Captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk by gunfire 15 miles from Cape Sigli, near Bougie/Bejaia, Algeria (H/L/te/un)     

Strathness, 4,353/1907, Strathness SS Co (Burrell), Glasgow, armed, sailing Savona for Baltimore. U-boat gun attack near Algiers, damaged, saved by own gunfire. (H/L/ms)

 

Sunday, 16 July 1916

North Sea

Two steamships mined in field laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien) near Lowestoft:     

ALTO, 2,266/1916, Pelton SS Co, Newcastle-reg, 22 crew, Mr H Cubitt, sailing Rouen for Newcastle in ballast. Sank 4 miles off Kessingland (wi - in 52.25.52N, 01.50.35E) (H/L/te/un/wi)

MOPSA, 885/1902, Bennett SS Co, Goole-reg, 18 crew, Mr H Greenwood, Goole for Boulogne with coal and general cargo. Damaged 7 miles S of (wi - in 52.21.30N, 01.46.40E), total loss(H/L/te/un/wi)

Western Mediterranean

Two steamships sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Algiers, Algeria:

EUPHORBIA (1), 3,837/1907, Stag Line, armed, Calcutta for London with general cargo. Torpedoed, sank 56 miles NE of (L - in 37.36N, 03.46E); 11 lives lost(H/L/te/un)

WILTON HALL, 3,387/1901, Wiltonhall SS Co, sailing Bombay for Hull with general cargo. Captured, sunk by bombs 65 miles NW of (L - in 37.54N, 03.50E; te - 37.54N,00.50E) (H/L/te/un)

Central Mediterranean

VIRGINIA, 4,279/1901, Edward Grey, sailing Torrevieja for Calcutta with salt. Captured by UB.45 (Karl Palis), sunk by torpedo 42 miles SW by W of Cape Matapan, Greece (L - 40 miles SW by W of); 2 lives lost(H/L/te/un)     
 

 
Monday, 17 July 1916
 
North Sea
 
Six sailing smacks fishing off Norfolk captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck), crews allowed to abandon ship then sunk with bombs, five of them off North Haisborough LV,off Happisburgh:
     
LOCH TAY, 44grt. Sunk 10 miles NNE of (wi - 10 miles NE from, in 53.04N, 01.38E). (H/L/un/wi)     
 
WAVERLEY, 59grt. Sunk 10 miles NNE of (wi - in 53.04N, 01.38E) (H/L/un/wi)
 
V. M. G., 59grt. Sunk 6 miles NE of (wi - in 53.04N, 01.39E) (H/L/un/wi)
     
GLANCE, 60grt, Lowestoft for fishing. Sunk 10 miles ENE of (L/wi - 10 miles NNE of, in 53.04N, 01.38E) (H/L/un/wi)
     
GERTRUDE, 57grt. Sunk 10 miles ENE of (L/wi - 10 miles NNE from, in 53.04N, 01.38E) (H/L/un/wi)
 
LOCH NEVIS, 58grt. Sunk near Smiths Knoll, off Winterton-on-Sea (wi - in 52.50N, 02.14E) (H/L/un/wi)
 
Mediterranean
 
Kingsmere, ex-German, 5,476/1906, British Government, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Western Mediterranean
 
ROSEMOOR, 4,303/1914, Novocastrian Shipping, Genoa for Hampton Roads in ballast. Captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk by bombs 80 miles NE by N of Algiers (L - 76 miles NE by N of) (H/L/te/un)
    
 
Tuesday, 18 July 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Anglesea, 4,534/1914, Cardigan SS Co (Jenkins Bros), Cardiff, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Western Mediterranean
 
LLONGWEN, 4,683/1907, W & C T Jones, Naples for Barry. Captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk by gunfire 90 miles NE of Algiers (L - 94 miles NE of); 14 lives lost (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Thursday, 20 July 1916
 
Western Mediterranean
     
Three more British steamships captured and sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Algiers, Algeria:
 
YZER, 3,538/1904, Brys & Glysen, Cette for Gibraltar in ballast. Sunk by torpedo 56 miles NW 1/2 N of (L - 50 miles N 2 W true of Cherchell); one life lost (H/L/te/un)
     
GRANGEMOOR, 3,198/1911, Novocastrian Shipping, Genoa for Baltimore in water ballast. Sunk by gunfire 75 miles NW by W of (L - in 37.22N, 02.02E) (H/L/te/un)
     
KARMA, 3,710/1904, Unison SS, Dunston for Porto-Ferrajo with coal. Sunk by gunfire 68 miles NNW of (L - 70 miles NW by Wof) (H/L/te/un)
 

 
Friday, 21 July 1916
 
Western Mediterranean
 
WOLF, 2,443/1894, Kent SS, Pelaw Main/Tyne for Genoa with coal. Captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk by gunfire, 75 miles NNW of Algiers (L - 37.52N, 02.10E) (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Saturday, 22 July 1916
 
U-boat Warfare - Britain had diverted much Dutch trade from Germany and it was increasingly necessary to protect Britain's increasing trade with Holland from German bases close by in the Heligoland Bight and Flanders, "The Beef Trip" was instituted by Harwich Force to protect shipping on this route
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Two more steamships captured by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) and sunk by gunfire off Algeria:     
 
KNUTSFORD, 3,842/1903, Woolston SS, Tunis for Baltimore with zinc ore. Sunk 12 miles NW by N of Cape Corbelin, near Bougie/Bejaia (L - in 37.03N, 04.17E)(H/L/te/un)
     
OLIVE (1), 3,678/1900, Turnbull Bros Shipping, armed, Algiers for Salonica with fodder/hay. Sunk 10 miles NW by N of Cape Corbelin (L - 5 miles off Tigzirt)(H/L/te/un)

    
 
Sunday, 23 July 1916
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Another steamship sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) bringing her total to 15 British sinkings in 10 days plus probably others attacked:     
 
BADMINTON, 3,847/1899, London-reg, Walter Thomas SS, Torre Annunziata to Algiers in ballast. Captured, sunk by gunfire 63 miles NE by N of Cape Carbon, near Bougie (L - 133 miles Eby N 1/2 N of Algiers) (H/L/te/un)
     
 

Monday, 24 July 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Rubio, 2,395/1909, Orders & Handford SS Co, Newport. Gun attack, rescued (Admiralty collier when sunk 25 February 1918) (H/ms)
     

 
Wednesday, 26 July 1916
 
Skagerrak
 
ESKIMO, 3,326/1910, Hull-reg, T Wilson, Christiana (now Oslo) for Hull. Captured off Risoer in Norwegian territorial waters by raider Möwe returning home from first cruise (L - 15 miles SE of Arendal), taken into Swinemude, Germany; all crew, except one, taken prisoner. In Lloyds, the original entry is in “Vessels Destroyed”, butcrossed out; re-entered in “British Vessels Captured by the Enemy” where fate was described as “Sunk in Baltic November 1917”, again crossed out with addition “Since released” (H/L/Lr/Mn)     

 
 
Thursday, 27 July 1916
 
Capt Charles Fryatt, master SS Brussels, executed by German firing squad
 
North Sea
 
Three fishing vessels fishing captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voight) and sunk with bombs off Tynemouth. Another six went down next day. Uboat.net lists all nine sinkings on the 28th:
 
SPEEDWELL (2), motor fishing vessel, 11grt. (wi - 28th) - Sunk 12 miles N of (L/wi - 15 miles NE of, in55.13N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
 
JANE STEWART
, sail fishing vessel, 15grt, auxiliary motor. Sunk 15 miles NE of (wi - in 55.12N, 01.06N) (H/L/un/wi)
     
VOLUNTEER, sail fishing vessel, 15grt, auxiliary motor. Sunk 15 miles NE of (wi - in 55.12N, 01.06N) (H/L/un/wi)
     

 
Friday, 28 July 1916
 
North Sea
 
Six more fishing vessels fishing captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voight), all but one sunk with bombs off Tynemouth:
 
SPERO MELIORA, motor fishing vessel, 11grt. Sunk 15 miles NE of (wi - in 55.13N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
 
ANDREWINA (L/wi - Andrew-Ina, un – Andrew Ina), motor fishing vessel, 50grt, North Shields for fishing. Sunk 12miles NE of (wi - 12 1/2 m NE of, in 55.10N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
     
GOOD DESIGN, motor fishing vessel, 40grt. Sunk 15 miles NE by E of (L/wi - 15 miles NE of, in 55.13N, 01.11W)(H/L/un/wi)
 
JOHAN, motor fishing vessel, 49grt. Sunk 15 miles NE by E of (L/wi - 15 miles NE of, in 55.13N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
         
JANET OVENSTONE, motor fishing vessel, 15grt. Rammed and sunk 13 miles ENE of (L/wi - 13 miles NE of, in 55.10N,01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
     
RENOWN, (L/wi - trawler), 61grt. Sunk 15 miles E of (wi - 15 miles NE of, in 55.13N, 01.10W) (H/L/un/wi)
 

     
Saturday, 29 July 1916
 
North Sea
 
Frodingham, cargo ship, 1,081/1914, P&O. Aircraft attack off Bridlington, Yorkshire, bombs missed. Note: presumably longer-range aircraft than those used in southern North Sea (H/ms)
  
 
 
Sunday, 30 July 1916
 
North Sea
 
CLAUDIA, 1,144/1897, Stockton-reg, Tyne-Tees SS, 21 crew, Mr C Jordan, Middlesbrough for London with 1,000t manufactured iron, general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien), sank 8 1/2 m SE by S 1/2 S of Lowestoft (L - 7 miles ESE of Middle Barnard Buoy, in 52.24.15N, 01.50E); 3 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Mediterranean
 
Bosnian, 2,506 (ms – 2,517)/1891, Ellerman Lines, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
Two steamships captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) and sunk by gunfire off Tunisia:
 
BRITANNIC (1), 3,487/1904, Hull-reg, W H. Cockerline, Tyne for Alexandria with coal. Sunk 20 miles ESE of Cape Bon (H/L/te/un)
     
ETHELBRYHTA, 3,084/1898, Harrowing SS, St Louis (Rhone) for Salonica with hay. Sunk 11 miles WSW of Pantellaria (L/te - in 36.43N, 11.44E) (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 31 July 1916
 
North Sea
 
Three trawlers captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) and sunk with bombs off Tynemouth. Two more sunk next day. Uboat.net lists all five on 1 August:
 
KING JAMES, 163/1900, Grimsby-reg, Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice, Skipper W Hills, Faeroes fishing groundsfor Grimsby. Sunk 15 miles SE of (L/wi - 8 miles E of Seaham, in 54.51.45N, 01.05.30W) (H/L/Lr/gy/un/wi)
 
BRACONASH, 192/1901, Aberdeen-reg, Don Fishing, Skipper T Peck, fishing. Sunk 18 miles SE of (L - 36 miles SE by Eof; wi - in 54.48N, 01.01W) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
TATIANA, 285/1909, Grimsby-reg, A Bannister, Skipper W F Jenner, Grimsby for fishing. Sunk 19 miles SE of (L - 36 miles SE by E of; wi - in 54.46N, 01.01W) (H/L/Lr/gy/un/wi)
    
 


 
  
AUGUST 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in August: 23 merchant ships totalling 43,354grt - 22 of 42,553grt to submarines, 1 of 801grt to mines, plus 13 fishing vessels totalling 1,672grt- 12 of 1,474grt to submarines, 1 of 198grt to mines (H)     

Tuesday, 1 August 1916

North Sea

AARO, passenger ship, 2,603/1909, Wilson Line, Hull-reg, sailing Hull for Christiania (now Oslo) with general cargo. Torpedoed and sunk by U.20 (Walther Schweiger); 3 lives lost, remainder of crew taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)     

Two trawlers captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) and sunk with bombs. See also 31 July:

HELVETIA, 167/1898, Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co, Grimsby-reg, Skipper W Brennan, Faeroes fishing grounds for Grimsby. Sunk about 5 miles E of Seaham, S of Sunderland (wi - in 54.51N, 01.11W) (H/L/Lr/gy/wi)

RHODESIA (2), 110/1898, R Irvin & Sons, North Shields-reg, Skipper A Legross, North Shields for fishing. Sunk 14 miles ESE of Tynemouth (wi - in 54.47N, 01.12W) (H/L/Lr/wi)

Mediterranean

Kalimba, 4,982/1914, Glasgow Navigation Co (MacLay & McIntyre), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

Central Mediterranean

HEIGHINGTON, 2,800/1891, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, sailing Naples for Oran in ballast. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by torpedo 40 miles NE of Cape Serrat, W of Bizerta, Tunisia (H/L/te/un)


 
Wednesday, 2 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
Two fishing vessels on fishing grounds captured by UB.39 (Werner Furbringer) and sunk by bombs. Four more attacked the next day, but Uboat.netlists two of them on the 2nd with the following two:
 
SMILING MORN, trawler, 126/1896, Hartlepool-reg, W Cappleman. Sunk 10 miles E of Coquet Is, off Amble (L - 70 miles off) (H/L/Lr/un)
     
TWIDDLER, (L - trawler), 99grt. Sunk 8 miles E of Coquet Is (L - 70 miles off) (H/L/un)
 
English Channel
 
Three vessels captured and sunk by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck):
 
S.D., barge/ketch, 131/1902, London-reg, Smeed, Dean & Co. Sunk by gunfire 18 miles NNW of Cape Antifer, N of LeHavre (H/L/Lr/un)
 
G C GRADWELL, 3-mast schooner, 156/1873, London-reg, J E Prettyman, no cargo. Sunk by gunfire 20 miles NW ofCape Antifer (L - 18 miles NW of) (H/L/Lr/un)
 
MARGARET SUTTON, iron brigantine, 197/1866, Plymouth-reg, T Steer ( 1/2 ), Mr J Prettyman (but see S/V G C Gradwellfollowing), Treport for Fowey in ballast (wi - shingle) proceeding at 4kts in light wind. U-boat approached from astern at 2120, two pistol shots fired,closed to starboard quarter and two of the vessel’s crew ordered aboard, Germans placed bombs, crew given 5min to abandon, sank 5min later at 2200, 35miles SSE of St Catherine's Point, S Isle of Wight (wi - in 50.06.30N, 00.50W); all crew picked up by patrol boat early in the morning at 0130, landed atNewhaven (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     

 
Thursday, 3 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
Four, possibly five vessels attacked by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) off Northumberland coast. The four fishing vessels were first captured by UB.39:
 
TRAWLER PRINCE, trawler, 126/1897, North Shields-reg, R Irvin & Sons, fishing. (un – 2nd) - Sunk by bomb 12miles from Longstone Light, Outer Farne Is (H/L/Lr/un)
 
OLYMPIA, trawler, 221/1905, Grimsby-reg, Great Grimsby & East Coast Fishing, Skipper A Smith, Grimsby for fishing.(un – 2nd, wi - 8th) - Sunk by gunfire 3 miles E of Coquet Is (wi - in 55.20N, 01.27W) (H/L/Lr/gy/un/wi)
 
MERCHANT PRINCE, trawler, 130/1898, North Shields-reg, R Irvin & Sons, Tyne for fishing. Sunk by bomb 14 miles SE by E of Farne Is (L - 9 miles E by S of Dunstanborough)(H/L/Lr/un)
 
LUCANIA, (L - trawler), 92grt, Tyne for fishing. Sunk by bomb 7 1/2 m ENE of Coquet Is (L - 4 miles E by S  1/2 S of Dunstanborough) (H/L/un)
 
Destro, 859/1914, Thomas Wilson Son & Co, Hull, Mr Edward Johnson, ling Stavanger for Hull with general cargo. Some 9-10 miles NE by E of Coquet Is, off Amble, U-boat approached and opened firewith both guns, the unarmed ship turned away, frequently hit but out-manouevred the submarine every time it tried to to get on her quarter, Destro evenattempted to ram. The attacker gave up after 50min by which time the ship's boats, funnel, bridge and deck-house were all badly damaged; master awarded DSC.Sunk 25 March 1918 (H/L/Mn/ms)
 
Dover Straits
 
Galway Castle, passenger ship, 7,988/1911, Union-Castle Mail SS Co, London. Aircraft attack near Gull LV, Goodwins, bombs missed. Sank 15 September 1918 (H/ms)
 
English Channel
 
Four vessels captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck):
 
SPHENE, 740/1902, Glasgow-reg, William Robertson, 13 crew, Mr R Stirling, Honfleur for Newport (Mon) in ballast. Sunk with bombs 26 miles SW of St Catherine's Point, IoW (L - 25 miles N ofCherbourg; wi - in 50.15.50N, 01.45W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
BADGER, 89grt, Portsmouth-reg, Thomas W Harvey, Jersey for Portsmouth with 80t coal tar. Sunk by gunfire 30 miles SW  1/2  S of St Catherine's Point (wi - in 50.06N, 01.38W)(H/L/un/wi)
 
FORTUNA, schooner, 131/1892, Truro-reg (wi - Falmouth), A E Benney, 5 crew, Mr Sydney Bate, Havre for Swansea with ferrous metals, steel turnings. Gun attack at 2020, stopped and abandoned, explosive scuttlingcharges placed on board, sank at 2045, 15 miles SSW of Portland Bill, Dorset (wi - in 50.16N, 02.30W), master forced to take ship’s papers across to theU-boat; survivors picked up by sailing vessel Ioanna, landed at Plymouth. UB.18 was also seen to attack sailing barge Ivo (H/L/Lr/un/wi)     
 
Ivo, sailing barge, c56grt, Portland for Alderney in ballast. Damaged by bombs 19 miles SSW of Portland Bill (L - 18 miles N of Casquets, off Alderney), towed into Portland (H/L/un)

    
 
Friday, 4 August 1916
 
UB.44 may have been sunk in Strait of Otranto, S Adriatic by drifters Quarrie Knowe & Garrigil (un – disappeared in Aegean on or after this date)
 
North Sea
 
STAMFORDHAM, 921/1898, Newcastle-reg, Harris Bros, Mr T Rees, Kirkwall for Seaham Harbour in ballast. Captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), sunk by gunfire 8 miles S of Longstone LH, Outer Farne Is (L - 8 miles SW of; wi - 8miles NE of, in 55.43N, 01.24.30W). Note: UB.39 also sank two fishing vessels, which Uboat.net dates on the 4th, but other sourcres on the 5th – see below(H/L/te/un/wi)
     
English Channel
 
Three vessels captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck) and sunk by bombs. Uboat.net lists one of these on the 5th:
     
ERMENILDA, 3-mast schooner, 94/1874, Bridgwater-reg, E Hamblin, 4 crew, Mr Hamblin, Guernsey for Poole with 155t of stone. UB.18 fired two shells over her at 0400, heaved to, submarine came alongside,took ships’ papers and gave crew five minutes to abandon ship which they did at 0420, sank by the head at 0520, 24 miles SSW of Portland Bill, Dorset (L - 18miles N of Casquets, rocks off Alderney; wi - in 50N, 02.40W); crew picked up by Russian SS Tammerford at 0700, brought into Weymouth Roads (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
DEMARIS, sailing vessel, c79grt, Guernsey for London with stone. Sunk 20 miles N of Alderney, Channel Is (H/L/un)
 
SPIRAL, collier, 1,342/1906, West Hartlepool-reg, Minnie SS, Tyne for Bordeaux with coal. (te/un - 5th) - Sunk 40 miles WSW of St Catherine's Point, IoW (wi - 14 1/2 m SE of Bill of Portland, in 50.20N, 02.12W)(H/L/te/wi)
     
NW Mediterranean
 
Two steamships captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) and sunk by gunfire off Marseilles:
 
TOTTENHAM, 3,106/1906, Britain SS, Porto Maurizio (te - Oneglia) for Gibraltar in ballast. - Sunk 33 miles SW by W of (L - Planier LH bearing NE by E mag, 22 miles; te - 22 milesSW of Planier Is LV) (H/L/te/un)
     
FAVONIAN, 3,049/1894, Papayanni Line, Tellicherri/Marseilles for London/Tees with general cargo. Sunk 24 miles SW ofPlanier Is (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Saturday, 5 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
Two trawlers sailing for fishing grounds captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) and sunk by bombs:
 
EGYPTIAN PRINCE, 129/1899, North Shields-reg, Prince Fishing, from North Shields. (un – 4th) - Sunk 12 miles SSE of LongstoneLight, Outer Farne Is, off Northumberland (L - 8 miles E by S of Dunstanborough) (H/L/Lr/un)
 
ST OLIVE, 202/1906, North Shields-reg, St Olive Steam Fishing, from Aberdeen. (un – 4th) - Sunk 11 miles E of Coquet Is, off Amble (H/L/Lr/un)     
 
Western Mediterranean
 
MOUNT CONISTON, 3,018/1892, Sefton SS, Port Talbot for Marseilles with coal, machinery. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by bombs 7 miles E by S of Medas Is, near Barcelona, Spain (H/L/te/un)
     
 

Sunday, 6 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
LOCH LOMOND (1), sailing smack, 42grt, fishing. (un – 7th) - Captured by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sunk by gunfire 18 miles E of Yarmouth, Norfolk (wi - 18 miles E of Lowestoft, in 52.30N, 02.15E) (H/L/un/wi)
     

 
Monday, 7 August 1916
 
German auxiliary minelayer Meteor laid mines in June 1915 along the North Russian Murman coast and sixLowestoft-based trawlers were sent to sweep them from July to November 1915. More mines were laid off the same coast by U-boats in 1916.
     
Western Mediterranean
 
Two laden colliers captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), and sunk by torpedo 34 miles N by E 1/2 E of Dragonera Is, off Majorca, Balearic Islands:
 
NEWBURN, 3,554/1904, Newcastle SS, Cardiff for Marseilles. Sunk (L - 30 miles N of Majorca) (H/L/te/un)
     
TRIDENT, 3,129/1902, Hall Bros SS, Penarth for Leghorn with coal. Sunk (L - “37 miles N37ºE of 10 miles W of Dragonera Is Light”) (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Tuesday, 8 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
Oruro, 1,919grt. Chased off Scotland, escaped (ms – believed passenger & cargo ship, 1,839/1878, Pickford & Black) (H/ms)
 
NW Mediterranean
 
IMPERIAL, 3,818/1902, Red Funnel Shipping, Marseilles for Montreal in ballast. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by gunfire 38 miles SW by W of Planier Is, off Marseilles (L - 38 miles S42W true of) (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Wednesday, 9 August 1916
 
NW Mediterranean
 
ANTIOPE (1), 2,973/1906, London-reg, Egypt & Levant SS, Marseilles for Rosario in ballast. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière),, sunk by gunfire 88 miles SW by W of Marseilles (L/te - in 42.16N,04.03E) (H/L/te/un)
  
     
 
Thursday, 10 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
SAN BERNARDO, 3,803/1896, Glasgow-reg, Palmerston SS, 30 crew, Tyssedal for South Shields in ballast. Captured by UB.19 (Walter Gustav Becker), sunk by bombs 17 miles SE of Longstone, Farne Is (L - in 55.03N, 1W by dead reckoning;wi - in 55.31N, 01.10W) (H/L/te/un/wi)     
 
English Channel
 
Hessle, 952/1907, Wetherall SS Co, Goole. Chased off Cape Barfleur, rescued (H/ms)
     

    
Friday, 11 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
F. STOBART, 801/1895, Sunderland-reg, Henry A Cochrane, 14 crew, Mr J Stuart, Goole for Jersey with coal. Mined, laid by UC.1 (Kurt Ramien), sank  1/2 m N of North Aldeburgh Napes Buoy, N of Orford Ness (wi - in 52.09.15N, 01.45.45E); 4crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)
         

 
Thursday, 17 August 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
SWEDISH PRINCE, 3,712/1896, Prince Line, Mr J Halloway, 1-3pdr, Salonica for Bizerta in ballast, in company with SSAstereas. Both ships saw a submarine in the morning, altered course to the south and went to full speed, Swedish Prince duelled with U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), but was hopelessly outranged and hit 9 or 10 times, engines stopped, sunk by gunfire 12 miles NWby W of Pantellaria island between Tunisia and Sicily (L/te - in 36.54N, 11.42E); 2nd officer mortally wounded by shellfire, master, chief engineer,gunner and a Frenchman taken prisoner, chief officer and rest of crew reached Port Pantellaria (H/L/Mn/te/un)
     

 
Friday, 18 August 1916
         
Mediterranean
 
Pacuare, 3,891/1905, Elders & Fyffes, Belfast, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
    
 

Sunday, 20 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
DRAGOON, sailing smack, 30grt, fishing. Captured by UC.10 (Werner Albrecht), sunk by bomb 36 miles NE by N of Cromer, Norfolk (H/L/un)
     

 
Monday, 21 August 1916
 
UC.10 torpedoed and sunk by British submarine E.54 off Dutch coast.
 

    
Friday, 25 August 1916
 
North Sea
 
EQUINOX, trawler, 198/1899, Grimsby-reg GY461, Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling, hired by Admiralty 6/15,returned to mercantile service 8/15, Grimsby for fishing. Missing on the 25th, probably mined 39 miles SE by E of Humber LV; 9 lives lost, including Skipper(H/L/Lr/D/gy)
     
Mediterranean
 
Kincardine, 4,108/1906, Countess Warwick SS Co (W J Williams), Cardiff, armed. Torpedo missed. Sunk 2 March 1917 (H/ms)

    
 
Saturday, 26 August 1916
 
Bay of Biscay
 
Katharine Park, 4,854grt, Portland (Me) for Bordeaux. (L - 25th) - Mined (L - in 45.32N, 03.04W), beached at Verdon on River Gironde, later refloated (ms –believed 4,837/1903, Park SS Co, Glasgow) (H/L/ms)
     
Mediterranean
 
Rio Tinto, 2,165/1888, J Tully, Sunderland. Chased, escaped (H/ms)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Devian, 3,689/1915, O & W Williams Co, London, armed, Genoa for Baltimore in ballast. (L - 25th) - Gun attack 20 miles SE of Cape San Sebastian, Spain, saved by own gunfire,damaged according to Lloyds. Sunk 29 September 1917 (H/L)     

    
 
Sunday, 27 August 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Italiana, 2,663/1898, British Maritime Trust (Furness), West Hartlepool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 14 September 1916 (H/ms)         
    

 
Tuesday, 29 August 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Strathness, 4,354/1907, Strathness SS Co (Burrell), Glasgow, 1-15pdr gun, Mr David Thompson in command. Gun attackfrom 5,000yds, 30 shots fired with no results, replied with 25 rounds, claimed one hit and escaped (H/Mn/ms)
    

 
Thursday, 31 August 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:
 
Polo, 1,906/1913, Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co, Hull. Sunk 12 February 1918 (H/ms)

Regent, 3,281/1903, J Westoll, Sunderland. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
DUART, 3,108/1901, Maclean Shipping, Cette for Newfoundland in ballast. Captured by U.38 (Max Valentiner) (Mn - Austrian submarine), sunk by gunfire 60 miles N 1/2 E of Cape Shershel/Cherchel, W ofAlgiers (L/te - 60 miles N 1/2 E of, in 37.39N, 02.50E) (H/L/Mn/te/un)
  
 



 
SEPTEMBER 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in September: 42 merchant ships totalling 104,572grt - 1 of 964grt to surface ships, 34 of 84,596grt to submarines, 7 of 19,012grt to mines, plus38 fishing vessels totalling 4,811grt, all to submarines (H)
UB.7 claimed sunk by Russian aircraft in Black Sea during September

 
Friday, 1 September 1916

Mediterranean

Antinous, 3,682/1907, Egypt & Levant SS Co (Bowen Rees), London, armed, sailing Torre Annunziata for New York in water ballast. (L - between 1st and 3rd) - Gun attack, saved by own gunfire, damaged according to Lloyds(H/L/ms)

Western Mediterranean

BARON YARBOROUGH, 1,784/1913, Kelvin Shipping Co, Ardrossan-reg, sailing Glasgow for Savona with coal. Captured by U.34 (Claus Rücker), sunk by bombs 27 miles NW of Dragonera Is, off W Majorca (L/te - in 39.48N, 01.51E) (H/L/te/un)
 1/2  1/2  1/2 SWIFT WINGS, Admiralty collier, 4,465/1911, London-reg, Wing SS, armed, Cardiff for Malta with coal, petrol. Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sank about 18 miles E of Cape Bengut LH, N of Tizi Ouzou, near Algiers; two crew lost, master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
    

 
Saturday, 2 September 1916
 
Bristol Channel
 
KELVINIA, 5,039/1913, Glasgow-reg, Glasgow SS, Mr J Meikle, Newport News for Avonmouth/Clyde with general cargo. Mined, laid by U.78 (Otto Dröscher), explosion took place around 9 miles S by W of Caldy Is, offPembrokeshire (L - lost 11 miles S of Caldy Is Light; wi - steamed inshore before foundering 4 1/2 m SSW of Caldy Is, in 51.33.30N, 04.42.30W). Insured forWar Risks for £95,200 (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Mediterranean
 
Glenogle, 7,682/1916, Glen Line (McGregor, Gow & Co), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 27 March 1917 (H/ms)     
 
Western Mediterranean
 
STRATHALLAN, 4,404/1907, Rome SS, Augusta for Barry Roads in ballast. Captured by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sunk by gunfire 20 miles NE of Philippeville, now Skikda, E Algeria (L/te - in 37.10N, 07.10E); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
    

 
Sunday, 3 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
RIEVAULX ABBEY, 1,166/1908, Hull-reg, Hull & Netherlands SS, Mr H Pearse, Rotterdam for Hull with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.10 (Werner Albrecht), sank  1/2 m ENE of Rosse Spit Buoy, off Spurn Head (te - in 53.30N,00.17E; wi - in 53.30.40N, 00.18E); 2 crew lost (H/L/te/un/wi)     
     
MASCOTTE, passenger ship, 1,097/1885, Leith-reg, George Gibson, 21 crew, Mr W Miller, Rotterdam for Leith with 500tgeneral cargo, one passenger. Mined starboard side directly under engine-room at 0825, laid by UC.6 (Otto Ehrentraut), immediately settled, sank around 0840,6 1/2 m SE of Southwold, S of Lowestoft (LWI/te - in 52.15.15N, 01.50E); donkeyman killed by the explosion, chief engineer reported his body was now under water,surviving crew and the passenger abandoned ship, picked up by patrol vessel, landed at Gorleston (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
Two small steamships in ballast captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck) and sunk by bombs off Havre:
 
NETTA, coaster, 370/1909, Newcastle-reg, Cheviot Coasters, Rouen for Newcastle. Sunk 35 miles NE 1/2 N of Cape Antifer (H/L/Lr/un)
     
TEESBOROUGH, 308/1912, Middlesbrough-reg, A Chester, Fecamp for London. Sunk 30 miles NE by N of Fecamp (H/L/Lr/un)
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Spen, 900/1908, Lancashire & Yorkshire Raileay Co, Goole. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)
 

    
Monday, 4 September 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
LARISTAN, 3,675/1910, Hindustan SS, Karachi for Hull with barley, wheat. Captured by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sunk by torpedo 30 miles W of Gozo, Malta (L - 36.04N, 13.13E; te - in 36.00N 13.00E); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
    

 
Tuesday, 5 September 1916
 
English Channel
 
CITY OF GHENT, 199/1871, Halifax (NS)-reg, W A Beattie, Tyne for Rouen with coke. Captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck), sunk by bombs 18 miles SE of Cape Barfleur LH, Cherbourg penisular (H/L/Lr/un)
     
Mediterranean
 
Hunstanton, 4,504grt, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (ms – believed 4,611/1903, ex-German Hansa LineWerdenfels, then British Government, sunk 4 April 1917) (H/ms)
     
 

Wednesday, 6 September 1916
 
English Channel
 
TORRIDGE, 5,036/1912, Cardiff-reg, Tatem Steam Navigation, Mr G Carter, Genoa for Tyne in ballast. Captured by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sunk by bombs 40 miles SSW of Start Point, Devon (L/wi - 30 miles S by W of, in 49.45N, 03.31W; te - 40 miles SSE of) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
BRITANNIA (1), sailing vessel, 39grt, London for Jersey with manure. Captured by UB.23 (Ernst Voigt), sunk by bombs 12 miles N of Alderney, Channel Is (H/L)     
 
Three steamships shelled by U-boat(s):     
 
Ancona, 1,168, Huelva for London with general cargo. Attacked by unidentified U-boat in 48.47N, 04.25W, damaged, rescued (ms –believed 1,245/1888, Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co (J Currie), Leith, sunk 28 May 1917 (H/L/ms/un)
 
Bengali, 5,684 (ms – 5,665)/1901, T & J Brocklebank Ltd, Liverpool, armed. Saved by own gunfire. Sunk 8 April 1918 (H/ms)
 
San Dunstano, tanker, 6,220/1912, Eagle Oil Transportation Co, London, armed. Saved by own gunfire (H/ms)     
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Two steamships carrying general cargo captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer) near Ushant:
 
STRATHTAY, 4,428/1906, Burrell & Son, New York for Havre. Sunk by torpedo 4 miles N of Pontusval Point (H/L/te/un)
     
TAGUS, 937/1898, Papayanni Line, Oporto for London. Sunk by bombs 35 miles NE by E 1/2 E of Ushant (H/L/te/un)
 
 

Thursday, 7 September 1916
 
English Channel
 
HEATHDENE, 3,541/1901, Dene SS, Benisaf for Tyne with iron ore. Captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), scuttled 38 miles SSW of Lizard Point, Cornwall (L/te - in 49.30N, 05.30W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
ACHAIA, 2,733/1907, ex-German, was Hamburg-reg, Deutsche Levante Line, detained Alexandria, now London-reg, The Shipping Controller, armed, Karachi for Cardiff with wheat, 3 naval motor boats as deck cargo. Mined, laid by U.72 (Ernst Krafft), sank 300yd ENE of entrance to Oran Harbour (L - 300-500yd NE of Oran Breakwater; te - in 36.00N 00.50E) (H/L/te/un)
 
The three naval motor boats were ex-high speed pleasure motor boats originally serving with the Motor Boat Reserve, armed with rifles/small arms, manned by RNVR crew, incorporated in to Yacht Patrol organisation 1/10/15; now required in the Mediterranean for A/S duties. Loss date in HMSO Naval Section and Dittmar is 8th:
     

    
Friday, 8 September 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
Steamship (and Admiralty collier) torpedoed by UB.47 (Wolfgang Steinbauer) off Cape Matapan:
 
LLANGORSE (1), 3,841/1900, Evan Thomas, Radcliffe, armed, Montreal for Salonica with oats. Sank 48 miles WSW of (L - 36N, 21.40E) (H/L/te/un)

 
     
Saturday, 9 September 1916
 
English Channel
 
Four, probably five sailing smacks, sailing Brixham for fishing, attacked by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), four of them captured and sunk off Start Point, Devon:
     
DORADO, 36grt. Sunk by bomb 20 miles SSE of (wi - 20 miles SE of, in 49.59N, 03.17W) (H/L/un/wi)
 
FAVOURITE, ketch-rigged, 38/1905, Brixham-reg BM240, Steven Richardson (bm - lost, yet "stillregistered" in 1920). Sunk by gunfire 20 miles SE of (wi - in 49.49N, 03.17W) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
     
MURIEL FRANKLIN, ketch-rigged, c29/1916,Brixham-reg BM159, London owner. Sunk by gunfire 20 miles SE of (bm - 20 miles SSE of; wi - in 49.59N, 03.17W) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
         
CONSOLATION, 47grt. Sunk by gunfire 15 miles SE of (wi - in 50.03.45N, 03.20W) (H/L/un/wi)
 
Paragon, 56grt, Lowestoft-reg LT362. Damaged about 20 miles S by E of Berry Head, Brixham, towed into Brixham (L/bm)
 
   
 
Sunday, 10 September 1916
     
Atlantic off NW France
 
LEXIE, 3,778/1911, Laming D’Ambrumenil SS, Karachi for Barry with wheat. Captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), sunk by torpedo 42 miles SW of Ushant (L/te - in47.51N, 05.40W) (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 11 September 1916
 
English Channel
 
Atalanta, 519/1905, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
 
Mediterranean
 
Kyarra, passenger & cargo ship, 6,953/1903, Australasian United Steam Navigation Co, Fremantle, armed. Chased,escaped. Sunk 26 May 1918 (H/ms)
     
 

Tuesday, 12 September 1916
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Avocet (1), 1,219/1885,  Liverpool-reg, Avocet SS, armed. Chased off Ushant, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 19 April 1917 (H/te/ms)
     
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships missed by U-boat torpedoes:
 
Irthington, 2,845 (ms – 2,837)/1897, Atlantic SS Co (Greenwell), Sunderland. Sunk 23 September 1917 (H/ms)

Tahiti, 7,585/1904, Union Steamship, New Zealand (H/ms)

    
 
Wednesday, 13 September 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Cilurnum, 3,126/1902, Hall Bros, armed. Torpedo failed to explode. Sunk 19 April 1917 (H/ms)

    
 
Thursday, 14 September 1916
     
Atlantic off S Ireland
 
COUNSELLOR, 4,958/1903, Liverpool-reg, Charente SS, 42 crew, Mr Wearing, San Francisco/Colon for Liverpool with barley and timber. Mined, laid by U.79 (Heinrich Jess), sank 5 miles W 1/2 S of Galley Head, S of Clonakilty, Co Cork (te - in 51.28N,09.03W; wi - in 51.30N, 09.05.25W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Mediterranean
 
Three armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):
 
Aysgarth, 3,118/1896, Clapham SS Co (Macarthy), Newcastle. Torpedo missed. Sunk 14 June 1917 (H/ms)     

Eptalofos, 4,431/1911, Mango & Co. Gun attack, rescued. Sunk 23 March 1917 (H/ms)

Highcliffe, 3,238/1909, Cliffe SS Co (G T Readhead), South Shields. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 3 September 1918 (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
         
ITALIANA, 2,663/1898, Italiana SS, armed, Rocas Bay/Tarragona for Salonica with hay. Torpedoed by UB.43, sank 112 miles E of Malta (L/te - in 36.00N, 16.50E) (H/L/te)

    
 
Sunday, 17 September 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Bellview, 3,567/1894, Bell & Co, armed, Mr James Churchill, Malta for Port Said, carrying four naval ML's as deck cargo. Gun attack by submarine first sighted 3 miles off, on starboard beam, returned fire with own 15pdr which jammed after ten rounds, 2 of the ML 13pdr's were brought into action which continued for three hours. An enemy shell passed through one of the ML's and into the ship's hold, but one of the ML rounds appeared to have hit the submarine which turned away; master awarded DSC (Admiralty collier when sunk 21 April 1918) (H/Mn/ms)
 
Dunbar, 3,672/1900, Dunedin SS Co (Henderson & McIntosh), Leith, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms)     
 
Central Mediterranean
 
Two steamships torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin) off Malta:
 
DEWA, 3,802/1913, James Nourse Ltd, armed, Toulon for Port Said in ballast. Sank 45 mile E 1/2 N of (L - 47 miles ESE of); 3 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
     
LORD TREDEGAR, 3,856/1914, Williams & Mordey, New York for Bombay with general cargo. Sank 51m SE by E of (L/te - in 35.31N, 15.26E); 4 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
   
 
 
Monday, 18 September 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Three armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s), all saved by own gunfire:
 
Clan Chisholm, 2,647/1896, Clan Line Steamers (Cayzer, Irvine), Glasgow. Gun attack (H/ms)

Katuna, 4,641/1907, Bucknall SS Lines, London. Chased. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)

Martaban, 5,106/1904, British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co (P Henderson), Glasgow. Gun attack (H/ms)

    
 
Wednesday, 20 September 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Persic, passenger & cargo steamship, 12,042 (ms – 11,973)/1899, Oceanic Steam Navigation Co (Ismay, Imrie), Liverpool, armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms)

    
 
Friday, 22 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
COLCHESTER, passenger ship, 964/1889, Great Eastern Railway Co. (L - 21st) - Captured by destroyers/torpedoboats off Dutch coast, taken into Zeebrugge; crew taken prisoner. Converted to minelayer at Bruges, mined, sank between Falkenstein and Laboe, in Kiel Bay, Baltic on 2/3/18 (H/L/Lr/ns)
 
Baltic Sea
 
KENNETT, 1,679/1889, James Cormack, Petrograd for Reval (Tallinn)/Riga in ballast. Torpedoed by U.19 (Johannes Spiess), sank 5 miles NE of Kokskar island, off N coast of Estonia; master lost (H/L/te/un)
  
 
 
Saturday, 23 September 1916
 
U-boat warfare - heavy raid took place on English fishing fleets 23rd to 25th with the loss of 30 trawlers. First period was the 23rd from 1030-1930 in an area 30-65 miles SE of the Humber, second period from 0800 on 24th to 1100 on 25th. During this time the weather was misty and no patrols were encountered. The days on which eachtrawler was sunk may be uncertain, and the order is simply from south to north on each day.
 
North Sea
         
In this first period, eleven trawlers, ten of them Grimsby-registered and sailing Grimsby for fishing grounds, captured and sunk by UC.16 (Egon von Werner) off Spurn LV, Humber estuary:
 
MERCURY (2), 183/1900, Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling. (gy - 24th) - Sunk by bomb 65 miles SE by E  1/2  E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
 
WEELSBY, 112/1891, J Grant. (gy - 24th) - Sunk by bomb 40 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
     
RESTLESS, 125/1891,GY379, G F Sleight, hired 1/15 as auxiliary patrol vessel, returned to fishing 12/15. (gy - 24th) - Sunk by gunfire 40 miles SE by E of (L - 41m SE 1/2 E of) (H/L/Lr/Mn/D/ge/gy/un)
 
REGO, 176/1903, G F Sleight. (gy - 24th) - Sunk by gunfire 40 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
     
COCKATRICE, 115/1894, GY610, Mackrill & Sons, hired 11/14 as minesweeper, returned to mercantile service 6/15. (gy - 24th) - Sunk by gunfire 40 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/D/ge/gy/un)
     
BRITANNIA III, 138/1891, A Bannister. Sunk by gunfire 40 miles SE by E of (L - 42 miles SE by E of)(H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
 
BEECHWOLD, 129/1895, GY779, Northwold Steam Fishing, hired 8/14 for Admiralty service, returned to fishing 9/14. Sunk by gunfire 40 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/D/ge/gy/un)
     
REFINO, 182/1903, G F Sleight. Sunk by gunfire 39 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)     
 
VIELLA, 144/1898, North Shields-reg, F Barrett. Sunk by bomb 38 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un)
 
ANDROMEDA, 149/1898, Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling. Sunk by gunfire 39 miles SE by E of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
 
PHOENIX, 117/1896, F W Mackrill. Sunk by gunfire 45 miles ESE of (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un)
 
English Channel
 
Two vessels captured by UB.37 (Hans Valentiner) and sunk by bombs off Nab LV, E of Isle of White:
 
DRESDEN, 807/1865, Leith-reg, Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet, Mr A Gillies, Newcastle for Rouen with coke. Sunk 41m S by E 1/2 E of (wi - off Selsey Bill, in 50.37.54N, 00.43.42W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
PEARL (1), 613/1904, Wetherall SS, Llanelly for Treport with coal. Sunk 41m S 1/2 E of (H/L/te/un)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
CHARTERHOUSE, 3,021/1895, London-reg, Preston Steam Navigation, armed, Toulon for Gibraltar in ballast. Captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), sunk by bombs 26 miles E by S  1/2 S of SE point of Formentera Is, S ofIbiza, Balearic Is (L - 17 miles SW of Toulon); master, 2 gunners taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Sunday, 24 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
In the second period (see 23rd), U.57 (Karl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg) sank another eleven trawlers starting at 0800on the 24th, a twelth escaping. All were sailing from Grimsby or Scarborough for fishing and return, captured and sunk by gunfire:
 
BRITON (2), 134/1891, Grimsby-reg, J H Bryant, Skipper S C Reeve, from Grimsby. Sunk 18 miles SE by S of Flamborough Head (wi - in 53.53N, 00.15E) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un/wi)
 
DEVONSHIRE, 148/1898, Grimsby-reg, North Lincolnshire Steam Fishing, Skipper J Grant, from Grimsby. Sunk 33 miles NE 1/2 N of Spurn LV (wi - in 54N, 00.47E) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un/wi)     
 
ALBATROSS, 1897, 158grt, Grimsby-reg, Savoy Steam Fishing (wi - J L Green), Skipper F Lark, from Grimsby. Sunk 20 miles E of Flamborough Head (wi - in 54.09N, 00.30E) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un/wi)
 
APHELION, 197/1899, Grimsby-reg, Grimsby & North Sea Trawling, Skipper W Evans, from Grimsby. Sunk 20 miles E of Flamborough Head (wi - in 54.09N, 00.30E) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un/wi)
     
FISHER PRINCE, 125/1896, Aberdeen-reg (Mn - Scarborough), J Walker, Skipper G Walker, from Scarborough. (L/un/wi - 25th) - Captured at 2030, 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00), German lieutenant and 8 prize crew boarded her, cruised incompany with the U-boat while other fishing boats were captured. In the case of Otter, and possibly over trawlers, the crews were taken on board Fisher Prince.This continued until 0950 next day when the captives were transferred to the Norwegian SS Tromp and Fisher Prince sunk at the same time as Seal (below),which would place Fisher Prince's sinking 33 miles E by S of Hartlepool (wi - in 54.38N, 00.14W) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
 
HARRIER (2), 162/1897, Scarborough-reg, Alliance Steam Trawling, Skipper C Donkin, from Scarborough. (L/un/wi - 25th) - Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
 
MARGUERITE (1), 151/1895, Aberdeen-reg, Mrs H W Leith, Skipper P Fannon, from Scarborough. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
OTTER, 123/1888, Scarborough-reg, G Alderson-Smith, Skipper E Stockell, from Scarborough. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00); crew taken on board Fisher Prince,transferred to Norwegian SS Tromp around 0950 the next day (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
OTTERHOUND, 150/1890, Hull-reg H92, N S Clarke, Skipper J Shippey, from Scarborough. (L/un/wi - 25th) - Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/hw/un/wi)
 
SUNSHINE (2), fishing vessel (L/wi - trawler), 74/1900 (L/wi - 185grt), Aberdeen-reg, R W Lewis, Skipper J Buchan,from Scarborough (wi - from Aberdeen). Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00E) (H/L/Mn/ge/un/wi)
 
TARANTULA, 155/1891, Scarborough-reg, Dogger Bank Steam Trawling, Skipper J Heritage, from Scarborough. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
Ranee, 194/1900, Grimsby-reg GY1157, from Grimsby. Attacked and damaged 20-21 miles E of Flamborough Head, towed into Humber (L/D/ge/un)
 
English Channel
 
OCEANIAN, fishing vessel, 60grt. Sunk by UB.37 (Hans Valentiner) off Start Point in 49.49N, 04.15W (un only)
 
Pembroke, 918grt. Gun attack 22 miles N of Casquets, escaped (ms – believed passenger & cargo steamship, 977/1880,Great Western Railway Co, Milford (H/ms)     
 
Western Mediterranean
 
One, possibly two armed steamships attacked by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière), off Dragonera Is, off W Majorca, Balearics:
 
BRONWEN, 4,250/1913, Cardiff-reg, W & C T Jones, Barry for Marseilles with coal. Captured, sunk by gunfire 25 miles N by E of (L/te - in 40.21N, 02.18E); master, 2gunners taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     
Strathness, 4,354/1907, Strathness SS Co (Burrell), Glasgow, Mr L Barnett. One and half hour U-boat gun attack with 150 rounds fired at her, 57-15pdr fired in return, escaped (H/Mn/ms)
 

 
Monday, 25 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
BELLA, motor fishing vessel, 11grt, fishing. Captured off Tod Head, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire by U.64 (Robert Moraht), not known how sunk; crew of four taken prisoner (H/L/un)
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A further eight trawlers sailing for the fishing grounds and return were captured by U.57, mainly sunk by gunfire by 1100 on the 25th bringing the total over the three days to 30:
 
CYNTHIA, 133/1891, Grimsby-reg, Allen Steam Fishing, Skipper D Appleyard, from Grimsby. (gy - 24/25th) - Sunk 23 miles E by S  1/2 S of Flamborough Head (wi - in 54.01N, 00.33E)(H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/gy/un/wi)
     
GAMECOCK (L/Lr/wi - Game Cock; Gamecock 171grt was a different vessel), 151/1892, Scarborough-reg, J S Ellis (wi -Gamecock Steam Trawling Co), Skipper S Bell, from Scarborough. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
LOCH NESS, 176/1901, Hartlepool-reg, J J Lister, Skipper R Grimmer, from Hartlepool. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
NIL DESPERANDUM, 148/1889, Scarborough-reg, Progress Steam Trawling, Skipper H Cammish, from Scarborough. Sunk by bomb 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
QUEBEC, 133/1892, Hull-reg, C Curzon, Skipper J Lang, from Scarborough. Sunk 16 miles E by N of Whitby (L/wi - 26 miles E by N of, in 54.34N, 00.08E) (H/L/Lr/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
SEAL, 135/1890, Scarborough-reg, G Alderson-Smith, Hartlepool, Skipper S W Normandale, from Hartlepool. Sunk 33 miles E by S of Hartlepool (wi - in 54.38N, 00.14W). Fisher Prince captured the day before was sunk at the same time and Seal's crew probably taken on board Norwegian SS Tromp around 0950 (H/L/Lr/Mn/un/wi)
     
ST HILDA, fishing vessel (L/wi - trawler), 94grt, Yorkshire-reg, from Hartlepool. Sunk 20 miles NE of Scarborough (wi - in 54.32N, 00.00) (H/L/Mn/ge/un/wi)
     
TRINIDAD, 147/1896, Hull-reg H336, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice, Skipper C T Deyes, from Hull. Sunk 23 miles NE of Whitby (wi - in 54.47N, 00.11W) (H/L/Lr/Mn/hw/un/wi)
     

 
Tuesday, 26 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
THELMA, passenger ship, 1,002/1903, Glasgow-reg, Scandinavian Shipping, 17 crew, Mr R Tait, Glasgow for Gothenburg with coal, general cargo. U.20 (Walther Schwieger) sighted at 1430 two miles astern and opened fire hitting her twice, closed range to one mile, steamer stopped and abandoned. U-boat fired torpedo at close range, Thelma sank at 1505, 24 miles E of Fair Isle (wi- in 59.35N, 00.50W); U.20 picked up the crew from the one boat, and with them on deck headed SE for two hours before transferring them to Danish schooner Marie, next day at 0900 they were put onboard destroyer HMS Mischief, landed at Thurso (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
LOCH RYAN, trawler, 186/1901, Hartlepool-reg, J Graham & Sons, fishing. (Other sources – 28th, presumably when reported missing) – Captured by U.64 (Robert Moraht) in North Sea, taken as prize to Germany; crew taken prisoner (H/L/Lr/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Dunrobin, 3,617/1903, Dunrobin SS Co (Sutherland), Newcastle, only 7 1/2 kts speed, armed, Mr G Thompson. Submarine sighted in the morning 2 miles distant, Dunrobin turned away, a 45min duel ensued during which she was hit once, claimed several 15pdrs hit on the attacker; no casualties, master awarded DSC. Sunk 24 November 1917 (H/Mn/ms)     
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Three steamships captured by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) and sunk by gunfire off Barcelona, Spain:
 
RODDAM (H - Boddam), 3,218/1912, Red ‘R’ SS, armed, Savona for Barry Roads in ballast. Sunk 76 miles ESE of (L - in 40.53N, 03.18E; te - 16 miles ESE); master taken prisoner(H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
STATHE, 2,623/1892, Ferrier & Rees, Penarth for Leghorn with coal. Sunk 50 miles E by S of (L/te - in 41.25N 03.20E) (H/L/te/un)
 
NEWBY, 2,168/1890, Temple, Thomson & Clark, St Raphael for Larne with minerals. Sunk 53 miles E of (L - 41.30N, 03.20E)(H/L/te/un)     
 

 
Wednesday, 27 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
THURSO, 1,244/1909, Hull-reg by owned Wilson Line, 21 crew, Mr S Woods, Archangel for Hull with timber. Captured by U.44, sunk by gunfire 60 miles NE by E of Rattray Head, N of Peterhead (L - 60 miles NE by N of Girdle Ness; wi - in58.23N, 00.39W); master, chief engineer taken prisoner (H/L/te/wi)
 
Western Mediterranean
     
Two laden colliers sunk by U.35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) off Dragonera Is, Majorca:     
 
SECONDO, 3,912/1904, Fisher, Alimonda, armed, Glasgow for Genoa. Torpedoed 40 miles NNE of (H/L/te/un)
     
RALLUS, 1,752/1915, Cork SS, armed, Clyde for Palermo, also general cargo. Captured, sunk by gunfire 45 miles NE by N of; master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)

 
 
Thursday, 28 September 1916
 
North Sea
 
FUCHSIA, trawler, 145/1896, Milford-reg, J Colquhoun, fishing. (L - 29th) – Captured by U.45 (Erich Sittenfeld) in 56.07N, 00.30W, not known how sunk; crew taken prisoner (H/L/Lr/un)
     
MARJORIE, ketch-rigged sailing smack, c55/1903, Lowestoft-reg LT999, C H Crews, fishing. Captured by UB.12 (Georg Gerth), sunk by bomb near Smiths Knoll, offshore between Cromer & Yarmouth (wi - in 52.50N, 02.14E) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
Princess Victoria (2), passenger steamship, 1,687/1912, Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Railway Co’s, Stranraer.Torpedo missed (H/ms)

 
     
Friday, 29 September 1916
     
Mediterranean
 
Nellore, 6,853/1913, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P & O), Greenock, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
         

 
Saturday, 30 September 1916
     
English Channel
 
PEARL (2), schooner, 144/1875, Falmouth-reg, T Waters, Preston/Fishguard for Truro with coal. Captured, sunk by bombs, 6 miles SSE of Lizard Point, Cornwall (wi - in 49.53N, 05.06W), landed at Falmouth from own boat. According to uboat.net, the name PEARL is in error and she was actually FORTUNA, 144grt, sunk by UB.38 (Erwin Wassner). Note that another FORTUNA, schooner, 131grt was sunk by UB.18 off Dorset on the 3 August 1916 (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
Two vessels accounted for by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), one possibly on 1 October. His mines also sank another ship on that date:
 
MAYWOOD, 1,188/1901, J T Duncan, Newport (Mon) for Havre with coal, coke. Mined, laid by UC.26, sank 1 mile W of Whistle Buoy, Havre Roads, Seine estuary (L - Whistle Buoy bearing SE 200yds) (H/L/te/un)
 
WILLIAM GEORGE, 3-mast schooner, 151/1876, Chester-reg, S Vickers, Swansea for St Valery-en-Caux with coal. (un - 1 October) - Captured by UC.26, sunk by gunfire, 10 miles NNEof Cap la Hague, Cherbourg peninsular (H/L/Lr/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Pentyrch, 3,382/1889, Lambert Barnett & Co, armed. Gun/torpedo attack, torpedo missed. Sunk 18 April 1918 (H/ms)
   




OCTOBER 1916

British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in October: 49 merchant ships totalling 176,248grt - 1 of 1,676grt to surface ships, 41 of 146,891grt to submarines, 7 of 27,681grt to mines, plus9 fishing vessels totalling 1,138grt, all to submarines (H)

 
Sunday, 1 October 1916

English Channel
     
VANELLUS, 1,797/1912, Cork SS, armed, Portishead for Rouen with oil. Mined, laid by UC.26 (Matthias Graaf von Schmettow), sank in Havre Roads, Seine estuary (L - off Whistling Buoy; un - 0.5 miles WSW of Whistle Buoy, Le Havre Roads); 3 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Carlo (1), 1,987/1913, Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co, Hull, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 13 November 1917 (H/ms)     
 
 
Monday, 2 October 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):
 
Jutland, cargo ship, 2,824/1898, Anglo-Bretagne Shipping Co. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 19 November 1917 (H/ms)

Melania, tanker, 5,824/1914, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London. Torpedo missed. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
     
Aegean Sea
 
HUNTSFALL, 4,331/1906, The Shipping Controller, armed, St Louis (Rhone) for Salonica with hay. Torpedoed by UB.46 (Cäsar Bauer), sank 12 miles SSE of Skyro island, off E Greece (L - 10 miles E of); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Wednesday, 4 October 1916
 
Barents Sea
 
BRANTINGHAM, 2,617/1897, Leith-reg, James Cormack, departed Archangel on 2nd for Leith with general cargo including pit-props and disappeared. Torpedoed by U.46 (Leo Hillebrand) on 4th, no wreckage found, announced by German wireless; all 24 crew lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
North Sea
 
Three Grimsby-reg. fishing vessels, sailing Grimsby for fishing and return, captured by UB.19 (Walter Gustav Becker), sunk by bombs off Spurn Head LV, Humber estuary, crews first allowed to abandon ship, no lives lost:
     
JERSEY, trawler, 162/1896, Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice, Skipper S Rye. Sunk 16 miles NE by E of(wi - in 53.43N, 00.37E) (H/L/Lr/ge/gy/un/wi)
 
RADO, trawler, 182/1903, G F Sleight, Skipper G W Thomas. Sunk c15 miles NE by E of (wi - in 53.41N, 00.36E)(H/L/Lr/ge/gy/un/wi)
 
JENNIE BULLAS (L/wi - also spelt Jennie Buller), motor fishing vessel, 26grt. Sunk 14 miles ENE of (wi - in53.41N, 00.28E) (H/L/ge/gy/un/wi)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
FRANCONIA, troopship/passenger ship, 18,510/1911, Liverpool-reg, Cunard SS, 314 crew, armed, Alexandria for Marseilles empty, troops had been disembarked. Torpedoed by UB.47 (Wolfgang Steinbauer), sank 195 miles E 1/2 S of Malta (L/te/wd - in 35.56N, 18.30E); 12 crew lost (un - 302 survivors picked up by hospital ship Dover Castle) (H/L/ge/te/un)
 

    
Thursday, 5 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
ROVER, fishing vessel (L/wi - trawler), 42grt, Grimsby-reg, Grimsby for fishing. Captured by UB.19 (Walter Gustav Becker), sunk by bomb 10 miles ENE of Spurn Head LV (wi - in 53.39N, 00.22E) (H/L/gy/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
ISLE OF HASTINGS, 1,575/1885, Alexander Shipping, Fray Bentos, Uruguay for London with tinned meat. Captured by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sunk by bombs 10 miles S by W of Ushant (L - 9 miles S 4 E of) (H/L/te/un)
     
Mediterranean
 
Camlake, cargo steamship, 3,230/1901, Merevale Shipping Co. Gun attack, rescued. Wrecked 17 August 1917 (H/ms)

    
 
Friday, 6 October 1916
 
Barents Sea
 
Hyndford, 4,286/1905, Scottish Shipowner’s Co (Robertson, Paterson), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack in Arctic Sea, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)     
 
North Sea
     
LANTERNA, 1,685/1882, London-reg, Gas Light & Coke, 18 crew, Mr J Brown, Tyne for London with 2,050t coal, steaming at 8kts. Mined at 2020, laid by UC.1 (Heinrich Küstner), sank 10min later 2 1/2 m NE 1/2 E of Cromer, Norfolk (wi - in52.57.30N, 01.19.06E); crew picked up by SS Ardnagrena at 2130 and landed at Hull (H/L/te/un/wi)

 
 
Saturday, 7 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
Jupiter, 2,124/1901, W R Bradley, Archangel for Hull with timber. Captured by UB.27 (Victor Dieckmann) 40 miles NE by E of Longstone LH, Farne Is, damaged by bombs, towed into Firth of Forth,beached on 11th (L - off Newhaven, Edinburgh), later refloated. Sunk 21 May 1917 (H/L/un)
 
English Channel
 
Coronilla, 1,312 (ms – 1,361)/1878, J Robinson & Co, South Shields. Chased, escaped under cover of the weather (H/ms)
     

 
Sunday, 8 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
MAGNUS, trawler, 154/1896, Fleetwood-reg FD181, Sunrise Steam Fishing, Tyne for fishing. Captured by UB.27 (Victor Dieckmann), sunk by bomb 40 miles ENE of Longstone, Farne Is (H/L/Lr/fd/un)
 
Western Atlantic
 
Three British steamships captured by U.53 (Hans Rose) and sunk off Nantucket LV, SE of Boston. One Dutch and one Norwegian ship also sunk:
 
STEPHANO, passenger ship, 3,449/1911, New York, Newfoundland & Halifax SS, St John's (NF) for New York with 93 passengers, general cargo. Sunk by torpedo 2 1/2 m ENE of (L - 4 1/2 m ENE of) (H/L/Mn/te/un)
     
STRATHDENE, 4,321/1909, Burrell & Son, Mr George Wilson, New York for Bordeaux with general cargo. Sunk by torpedo 20 miles SE of (L - 20 miles S by E of); after sinking her, U.53 sighted another ship, possibly SS West Point following and left the crew of Strathdene to make their own way to Nantucket LV, rescued by US destroyer. Note: £52,083-worth of brass rod, discs, shell cases, including “£5 of hold sweepings” and £19,224-worth of spelter cargo were recovered from the wreck in1955/56 “13 miles off Nantucket Light-vessel” (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
WEST POINT, 3,847/1912, Norfolk & North American SS, Mr F Harnden, London for Newport News with general cargo. Attacked later in afternoon, did not surrender immediately, sunk by bombs 46 miles SE by E of (L/te - in 40.25N, 69W); U.53 towed two of the ship's lifeboats to within 6 miles of Nantucket LV, survivors taken off that evening by US destroyers, reached New York (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Somali, passenger ship, 6,712 (ms – 6,708)/1901, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, Greenock, Admiralty hospital ship from 2/15-4/16, now armed. Torpedo missed (H/ms/tr)

    
 
Monday, 9 October 1916
 
Barents Sea
 
ASTORIA, 4,262/1901, London-reg, Beaver Shipping, Philadelphia for Archangel with general cargo. Captured by U.46 (Leo Hillebrand; Mn - attacked by two submarines, the other presumably U.43, see 10th), sunk by torpedo 120 miles NW by W of Vardo island, Norway; 17 lives lost, only half of the crew surviving long enough to be rescued (H/L/Mn/te/un)
     

 
Tuesday, 10 October 1916
 
Barents Sea
 
GARDEPEE, 1,633/1882, C A Stewart, London, Trondheim/Christiansand for Archangel with herrings, zinc spelter. Captured by U.43 (Hellmuth Jürst), sunk by bombs 70 miles NNE of North Cape (H/L/te/un)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
ELAX, Admiralty chartered red-ensign oiler, 3,980/1893, London-reg, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, armed, (sl - Admiralty oiler No.133, presumably Y7.133), Rangoon for Malta with fuel oil. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank 70 miles WSW of Cape Matapan, Greece (L/te - in 35.54N, 21.19E) (H/L/Lr/sl/te/un)
     
 

Wednesday, 11 October 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
CROSSHILL, 5,002/1910, Glasgow-reg, Macbeth & Co, armed, Toulon for Salonica with military stores. Torpedoed by UB.47 (Wolfgang Steinbauer), sank 60 miles W of Malta; 4 lives lost (H/L/te)     
 

 
Thursday, 12 October 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
Sebek, 4,601/1909, J & C Harrison, London, armed, Liverpool for Alexandria with general cargo. Torpedoed and damaged by UB.47 (Wolfgang Steinbauer), 9 miles SE of Gozo island, beached at Marsa Scirocco, Malta, later refloated. Sunk 21 April 1917 (H/L/ms/un)

    
 
Friday, 13 October 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
WELSH PRINCE, 4,934/1903, Prince Line, Calcutta for Dundee with general cargo. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank 33 miles SW of Cape Matapan (L - 36N, 22.05E); 2 lives lost(H/L/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 16 October 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Malda, passenger & cargo ship, 7,884/1913, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire, second of four attacks in 1916. Sunk 25 August 1917 (H/ms)

 
 
Tuesday, 17 October 1916
 
Austro-Hungarian submarine U.XVI sunk in Adriatic Sea off Albanian coast, either rammed by SS Bormida or destroyed by the exploding depth charges of Italian destroyer Nembo as she sank

    
 
Thursday, 19 October 1916
 
English Channel
 
ALAUNIA, passenger ship, 13,405/1913, Liverpool-reg, Cunard SS, 166 crew, New York for London with 180 passengers, general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.16, sunk 2 miles S of Royal Sovereign LV, off Sussex; 2 lives lost (H/L/ge/te/wd)
 
Mediterranean
 
Royal Sceptre, 3,838/1906, J L Knott, Newcastle, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)     
     

 
Friday, 20 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
HUGUENOT, 1,032/1892, Austin, Elliot, London for Newcastle in ballast. Mined, laid by UC.11 (Max Schmitz), sank 4 miles NE 1/2 E of Sunk LV, off Harwich, Essex (H/L/te/un)
 
English Channel
 
Three steamships captured by UB.18 (Otto Steinbrinck) and sunk near Havre:
 
CLIBURN, 440/1916, Workington-reg, Murray & Sandwith, 10 crew, Swansea for Honfleur with coal. Sunk by bombs 30 miles SSE of St Catherine's Point (wi - in 50.09N, 00.55W)(H/L/un/wi)
 
THE DUKE, 376/1890, Glasgow-reg, J Hay & Sons, Rouen for Newhaven in ballast. Sunk by gunfire 40 miles NNE of Havre (H/L/Lr/un)
 
THE MARCHIONESS, 553/1899, J Hay & Sons, Clyde for Fecamp with coal. Sunk by gunfire, 30 miles NW of Fecamp (H/L/te/un)
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BARBARA, 3,740/1897, West Hartlepool-reg, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation ( 1/2 ) (un – Kent SS Co), 32 crew, Mr W Mayne, Philadelphia for West Hartlepool with 6,000t refined sugar. Captured by UB.40 (Karl Neumann) and sunk by gunfire about 25 miles S of Isle of White (wi - 25 miles S of St Catherine’s Point, in 50.09N, 01.12W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
MIDLAND, 4,247/1913, The Noreuro Traders, Melbourne/Cape Town for Havre with wheat. Captured by UB.39 (Werner Fürbringer), sunk by bombs 60 miles E by N  1/2  N of Ushant (te - in 48.55N, 03.46W) (H/L/te)
     
Glenmay, 2,485/1905, R Livingston & Co, West Hartlepool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Glenmorag, 3,535/1906, SS Glenmorag Co (Easton, Greig), Glasgow. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off NW Ireland
 
CABOTIA, 4,309/1900, Glasgow-reg, Donaldson Line, Montreal for Manchester with horses, wood pulp. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by gunfire 120 miles WNW of Tory Is, off Co Donegal (L - 120 miles W of; te - in 55.16N, 11.16W); 32 lives lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un)     
 
Western Mediterranean
 
MOMBASSA, 4,689/1889, British India Steam Navigation, Cdr R F Thomson RNR, armed, London for Zanzibar with general cargo, called at Gibraltar 16th for instructions, French destroyer came up early morning of 20th, reduced speed and stayed in company.  by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sunk 8 miles NW by N of Cape Corbelin, near Bougie, Algeria (L - “13 miles S88ºE true of 3 miles N of Cape Bengut”); one life lost (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 

 
Saturday, 21 October 1916
 
English Channel
     
Two vessels captured by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen) and sunk 25 miles S of Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex:
 
GRIT, motor barge, 147/1913, London-reg, F T Eberhardt, Havre for London in light condition. Sunk by gunfire (H/L/Lr/un)
 
PRINCESS MAY, wood ketch (wi - Thames spritsail barge), 104/1894, Poole-reg, W T Whitmore, Mr G Fulcher, Havre for London with bones. Sunk with bombs shortly after Grit went down (wi - in 50.19N, 00.16E) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
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COCK O' THE WALK, wood ketch, 111/1876, Weymouth-reg, H Strange, Granville for Fowey in ballast. Captured by UB.40 (Karl Neumann), sunk by gunfire, 30 miles NW by N of Les Hanois Light, off SW Guernsey (H/L/Lr/un)
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Three armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s), all saved by own gunfire:
 
Australia, cargo ship, ex-German, 7,526 (ms – 7485)/1912, presumably British Government. Chased (H/ms)

Matiana, passenger & cargo ship, 5,313 (ms – 5,264)/1894. British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow. Gun attack. Lost 1 May 1918 (H/ms)

Stork, passenger and/or cargo ship, 2,029/1904, General Steam Navigation Co, London. Gun attack (H/ms)

 
 
Sunday, 22 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
EFFORT, trawler, 159/1895, Aberdeen-reg A487, T Lauder, Skipper J Craig, Aberdeen for fishing (wi - for Hull), in ballast. Captured by UB.34 (Theodro Schultz), sunk by gunfire 30 miles ENE of Buchan Ness, near Peterhead (wi - in 58.42N, 01W) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
Atlantic off NW France
 
Cyrene, 2,904/1888, Lumsdon, Byers & Co, Sunderland, armed. Gun attack off Ushant, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 5 April 1918 (H/ms)     
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s), torpedoes missed:
 
Lady Plymouth, 3,521/1915, Redcroft Steam Navigation Co (Lougher), Cardiff. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)

Russian, 8,825 (ms – 8,767)/1895, F Leyland & Co, Liverpool. Sunk 14 December 1916 (H/ms)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Two British steamships sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann) off Cape Tenez/Tenes, W Algeria:
 
W. HARKNESS, 1,185/1874, Steven C Lambros, Bona for Seville with empty barrels, phosphate. Captured, sunk by bombs 17 miles W of (H/L/te/un)
     
CLUDEN, 3,166/1896, London-reg, Steel, Young & Co, armed, Karachi for Cardiff with wheat. Torpedoed, sank 11 miles W of; 4 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
 
Black Sea
 
Trevorian, cargo steamship, 4,144/1911, Hain SS Co, St Ives. Torpedo missed. Wrecked in Black Sea May 1919 (H/ms)

    
 
Monday, 23 October 1916
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
BAYREAULX, 3,009/1895, The Bay SS Co, Cardiff, sailed Cardiff 20 October 1916 for Montreal in ballast, and went missing. U.63 (Otto Schultze) sank an unidentified British ship SW of Ireland, in 50.27N, 11.24W, on this date. Uboat.net reports the victim was almost certainly SS Bayreaulx (un only)
 
Alexandrian, 4,467/1901, F Leyland & Co, Liverpool. Torpedo missed (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off S Ireland
     
Kandy, ex-German, 4,921 (ms – 5,049)/1904, presumably British Government, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire(H/ms)
    
 
Tuesday, 24 October 1916
 
Western Front - Battles of Verdun, French recapture Fort Douaumont
 
North Sea
 
FRAMFIELD, 2,510/1894, London-reg, Woodfield SS, Port Kelah for Middlesbrough with iron ore. Mined, laid by UC.11 (Max Schmitz), sank 3 miles NE of Sunk LV, off Harwich (wi - 51.55.20N, 01.41.20E); 6 crew lost including master (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
TWIG, schooner, 128/1875, Liverpool-reg, T Tyrrell, Guernsey for Southampton with stone. Captured by UB.37 (Hans Valentiner), sunk by bomb, 15 miles N of Alderney, northernmost of Channel Is (H/L/Lr/un)
 
Four steamships attacked by U-boat(s), all rescued or saved:
 
Bagdale, 3,045/1904, T Smailes & Sons SS Co, Whitby. Captured, rescued. Sunk 1 May 1917 (H/ms)

Izaston, 3,060/1898, W S Miller & Co, armed. Chased, own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)

Joseph Davis, 2,243 (ms – 2,282)/1890, J Westoll, Sunderland. Gun attack, rescued (H/ms)

Venetia, 3,596/1898, Venetia SS Co (Gow, Harrison), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, own gunfire (Admiralty collier when sunk 9 December 1917) (H/ms)     
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
SIDMOUTH, 4,045/1903, Cardiff-reg, Griffiths Lewis Steam Navigation, Mr D Jones, Cardiff for Spezia with coal. Captured by UB.29 (Herbert Pustkuchen), sunk by torpedo 22 miles S of Wolf Rock, off Lands End (wi - in 49.35N, 05.44W) (H/L/te/un/wi)

    
 
Wednesday, 25 October 1916
     
Mediterranean
 
Queen, 4,956/1907, The Burn Ltd (Shankland), Greenock, armed. Torpedo missed. Sunk 28 June 1918 (H/ms)
    

 
Thursday, 26 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
TITAN, trawler, 171/1903, Grimsby-reg, T Robinson, Grimsby for fishing. Captured by UB.34 (Theodor Schultz), sunk by gunfire 56 miles SE of Girdle Ness, near Aberdeen (L - 74 miles NE of Longstone, Farne Is) (H/L/Lr/gy/un)
 
English Channel
 
City of Edinburgh, 6,255grt, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (ms – believed 7,803/1899, Ellerman Lines) (H/ms)
 
Morlais, 950 (ms – 1,035)/1883, Dutch-owned, probably on charter to British Government, Swansea for Rouen with coal. Gun attack (H - in English Channel; L - about 25 miles SW by W (magnetic) of S end, Lundy Is, off Devon), rescued, damaged according to Lloyds. Sunk in WW2 (H/L/ms)
 
St George's Channel
 
Fabian, 2,246/1881, SS Fabian Co (F Leyland), Liverpool, armed, Almeria for Manchester with general cargo. Gun attack by U.20 (Walter Schwieger) in 50.56N, 06.25W and damaged, saved by own gunfire; one life lost. Sunk 20 September 1917 (H/L/Mn/ms/un)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
Two steamships sunk by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms) off the Scillies, both cited by the British authorities as another case of German "spurlosversankt" or deliberately "sunk without trace”:
 
RAPPAHANNOCK, 3,871/1893, Furness, Withy, Mr Richard Garrett, Halifax (NS) for London with grain, deals, general goods. Captured 70 miles off, not known how sunk; 37 lives lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
NORTH WALES (2), 4,072/1909, North Wales Shipping, Mr G Owen, Hull for Canada in ballast. Torpedoed and sunk; 30 lives lost including master, several identified bodies and a boat came ashore at Penzance. At the time fate was unknown, listed by HMSO at end of October, by Lloyds as around 26th(H/L/Mn/te/un)
     
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
ROWANMORE, 10,320/1900, Johnston Line, Baltimore for Liverpool with copper, cotton, maize, oil. Captured by U.57 (Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg), sunk by torpedo 128 miles WNW of Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork(L/te - in 51.30N, 12.58W); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)     
 
 

Saturday, 28 October 1916
 
North Sea
 
SPARTA, 480/1882, London-reg, Sparton SS, 12 crew, Mr Finlayson, Hull for Havre with 380t coke. Mined at 0830, mine laid by UC.4 (Hans Howaldt), sank 3 1/2 m E by N of Southwold, S of Lowestoft (L/wi - 7-8 miles SSW of South Holm Buoy, in 52.18.50N, 01.47.30E); two Chinese and two Greek crew lost(H/L/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
GALEKA, hospital ship, ex-passenger ship, 6,772/1899, London-reg, Union Castle Mail SS, previously on Government service as troopship, hospital ship from 6/15, sailing England for Havre, medical staff on board but no patients. Mined, laid by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), badly damaged 5 miles NW of Cape de la Hague, Cherbourg peninsular (L - 3 miles NW of Havre; te - in 49.34N, 00.05E), beached at Cape la Hague, attempts made to salvage her, total loss; 19 RAMC staff lost(H/L/Mn/ge/te/tr/un/wd)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
MARINA, 5,204/1900, Glasgow-reg, The Donaldson Co, 1-4in, 54 crew, Mr J Brown, Glasgow for Baltimore with 50 passengers, part cargo of 100t general goods including whisky. Torpedoed by U.55 (Wilhelm Werner), sank 30 miles W of Fastnet (L/wi - 32 miles WNW of, in 51.28N, 10.25W); 5 crew, 13 passengers lost (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off SW Portugal
 
RIO PIRAHY, 3,561/1901, West of England Shipping, Leghorn for Barry Roads in ballast. Captured by U.63 (Otto Schultze), sunk by bombs 60 miles S of Cape St Vincent (L - 71m W by N  1/2 N of Cadiz) (H/L/te/un)
         

 
Sunday, 29 October 1916
 
English Channel
 
Princess Thyra, 781/1909, M Langlands & Sons, Glasgow. Gun attack, escaped. Wrecked WW2 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off SW Portugal
 
MARQUIS BACQUEHEM, 4,396/1893, The Admiralty, armed, Calcutta for Middlesbrough with manganese ore. (te/un - 30th) - Torpedoed by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig), sank 50 miles S by E of Cape St Vincent (L/te - in 36.17N, 08.30W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic off SW Spain
 
Two armed British steamships sailing for Liverpool with general cargo captured by U.63 (Otto Schulze) and sunk by torpedo 70 miles W  1/2 N of Cape Trafalgar, near Cadiz:
 
MEROE, 3,552/1911, Moss SS, from Alexandria. Sunk (L/te - in 36N, 07.35W) (H/L/te/un)
     
TORINO, 1,850/1895, Atlantic & Eastern SS, from Genoa/Palermo. Sunk (L/te - in 36N, 07.40W); one life lost (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 30 October 1916
 
Norwegian Sea
 
NELLIE BRUCE, fishing vessel, 79grt 1898, (L/Lr - trawler, 192grt), Grimsby-reg, W W Crampin, fishing. Attacked by U.24 (Walter Remy), sunk by gunfire off Beru Fiord, E Iceland (L - 55 miles off Papey island, off E Iceland) (H/L/Lr/un)
 
North Sea
 
Mantola, passenger ship, 8,253/1916, British Indian Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed, Middlesbrough for London/Calcutta with general cargo. Mined, laid by unidentified U-boat (L - in 52.09N, 01.52E; un –off Aldeburgh), reached London (H/L/ms/un)
 
Atlantic W of Scotland
 
FLOREAL, trawler, 163grt, from Aberdeen/Stornoway for St Kilda fishing grounds. Captured by U.57 (Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg), sunk by bomb 20 miles N by W of Flannan Is, W of Lewis island, Outer Hebrides (H/L/un)
 
Atlantic off SW Portugal
 
Arlington Court, 4,346/1905, Court Line (Haldinstein), London, armed. Chased 50 miles SW of Cape St Vincent, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)     
 

    
Tuesday, 31 October 1916
 
Central Mediterranean
 
GLENLOGAN, 5,838/1896, Glen Line, armed, Yokohama for London/Hull with general cargo. Torpedoed by U.21 (Otto Hersing), sank 10 miles SE from Stromboli Is, off NE Sicily (L - 10 miles SE mag of) (H/L/te/un)
  



 
NOVEMBER 1916
 
British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in November: 49 merchant ships totalling 168,809grt - 42 of96,672grt to submarines, 7 of 72,137grt to mines, plus 15 fishing vessels totalling 1,600grt - 14 of 1,474grt to submarines, 1 of 126grt to mines (H)
 
 
Wednesday, 1 November 1916
 
Barents Sea
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s) in Arctic Sea:
 
Daybreak, 3,238/1911, J Wood & Co, West Hartlepool. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 24 December 1917 (H/ms)

Huntspill, ex-Austrian, 5,440 (ms – 5,301)/1904, British Government. Torpedoes missed (H/ms)
 
Norwegian Sea
 
BRIERLEY HILL, 1,168/1903, Hull-reg, Roberts & Cooper, Halmstad for Hull with pit props. Captured by U.30 (Franz Grünert), sunk by torpedo 18 miles WNW of Hellisoy LH, Fedje island, S of Sognefiord (L - 20miles W of Sognefiord) (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
SEATONIA, 3,533/1898, West Hartlepool-reg, Hartlepools Seatonia SS, Mr Arthur Pattison, Musgrave Town (NF) for Barry Roads with pit props. Captured by U.49 (Richard Hartmann), sunk by torpedo 80 miles NW 1/2 N of Fastnet (L/wi - 55 miles Wby N of, in 51.25N, 11W; te - in 52.00N, 11.30W) (H/L/Mn/te/un/wi)
     
Mediterranean
 
Lindenhall, 4,003/1900, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/Mn/ms)

 
     
Thursday, 2 November 1916
 
North Sea
 
SPERO, 1,132/1896, Wilson Line, Drontheim/Bergen for Hull with general cargo. Captured by U.69 (Ernst Wilhelms), sunk by torpedo, 95 miles WSW of Hellisoy LH, Norway (te - in 59.43N, 01.52E; L - 103 miles WSW of Bergen) (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
Three trawlers sailed for fishing grounds, captured by U.49 (Richard Hartmann) and sunk 90 miles SW by W of Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork:
 
CASWELL, 245/1908, Swansea-reg, Rhondda Fishing, from Swansea. Sunk by bombs (H/L/Lr/un)
     
HARFAT CASTLE, 274grt, from Swansea. Sunk by bombs (H/L/un)
     
KYOTO, 282/1914, Cardiff-reg, Neale & West, from Cardiff. Sunk by gunfire (H/L/Lr/un)
     
Mediterranean
 
Polo, 1,906/1913, Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co, Hull, armed. Torpedo missed. Sunk 12 February 1918 (H/ms)
     

 
Friday, 3 November 1916
 
U.56 went missing after this date in the Arctic off Norway
     
Central Mediterranean
 
STATESMAN, 6,153/1895, Charente SS, Liverpool for Calcutta with general cargo. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank 200 miles E of Malta (L/te - in 36N, 18.30E); 6 lives lost(H/L/te/un)
     

 
Saturday, 4 November 1916
 
U.20 grounded in North Sea off Danish coast, blown up next day
 
Irish Sea
 
SKERRIES, 4,278/1906, Glasgow-reg, Clyde Shipping, Mr J Angus, Barrow for Barry in ballast. Mined, laid by new large minelayer U.80 (Alfred von Glasenapp), sank 15 miles NNW of The Skerries, off Anglesey (te/wi - in 53.45N 04.18W; L/wi - also 30 miles S of Douglas Head); master and 1 crew lost (H/L/ge/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic W of SW England
 
Siamese Prince, 4,847/1911, Prince Line (Knott), Newcastle. Gun attack 210 miles SW of Scillies, escaped (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships torpedoed and sunk by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin) off Malta:
 
CLAN LESLIE, 3,937/1902, Glasgow-reg, Clan Line, Bombay for London with general cargo. Sank 200 miles E 1/2 S of (L/te - in 35.56N, 18.37E); 3 lives lost (H/L/Mn/te/un)
     
HUNTSVALE, 5,398/1898, The Admiralty, Salonica to Algiers in ballast. Sank 200 miles E of (L - 300 miles E of); 7 lives lost including master (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
    

Monday, 6 November 1916
 
UB.45 sunk by Russian mine in Black Sea, off Varna, Bulgaria
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Glengyle, 6,225/1915, F Leyland & Co, Liverpool, sailing Yokohama for London. About 6th - Damaged by U-boat attack near Castellon, Spain (L/ms only)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
ARABIA, passenger ship, 7,933/1898, Greenock-reg, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, armed, Mr Palmer, Sydney for London with general cargo, total of 723 people on board. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank rapidly 112 miles W by S of Cape Matapan (L/te - in 36N, 21E); 2 killed by torpedo explosion, survivors taken off in orderly evacuation (H/L/Mn/te/un/wd)

        
 
Tuesday, 7 November 1916
 
UC.15 went missing around now in Black Sea, possibly off Rumanian coast
     
English Channel
 
SUFFOLK COAST, 780/1913, Powell, Bacon & Hough Lines, Clyde for Fecamp with general cargo. Captured by UC.17 (Ralph Wenninger), sunk by bombs 14 miles ESE of Cape Barfleur, Cherbourg peninsular (H/L/te/un)
 
Ryhope, 1,334/1907, Furness, Withy & Co, West Hartlepool. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)

    
 
Wednesday, 8 November 1916
 
North Russia
 
Earl of Forfar, steamship. In Archangel, explosion, presumably damaged; at least two naval ratings killed (ms – presumably 4,453/1910, Earl of Forfar SS Co (Dobbie), Glasgow) (dk/ms only)
 
North Sea
 
VINEYARD, trawler, 126/1896, Aberdeen-reg A787, T Main/Tuollos Steam Fishing, Skipper T Main, Aberdeen for fishing. Mined, laid by unidentified U-boat, sank 13 miles S by E 1/2 E from Aberdeen (L/wi - 14 miles S by E 1/2 E from, in 56.56N, 01.52W); 8 lives lost, including Skipper (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
SHELDRAKE, 2,697/1894, General Steam Navigation, Naples for London in ballast. Captured by U.34 (Clau Rücker), sunk by gunfire 20 miles WSW of Marittimo Is, off W Sicily; master, chief engineer taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Thursday, 9 November 1916
 
North Sea
     
SUNNISIDE, 447/1905, Sunderland-reg, Wear Steam Shipping ( 1/2 ), 13 crew, Mr R Strickland, Hull for Rotterdam with 394t general cargo. Mined right forward at 0045, laid by UC.4 (Hans Howaldt), sank within 3min, 4 miles ENE of Southwold, S of Lowestoft (wi- in 52.22.11N, 01.47.18E); 4 crew lost including master (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
Bay of Biscay
 
Carlo (1), 1,987/1913, Thomas Wilson Sons & Co, Hull, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 13 November 1917 (H/ms)      
 
     
Friday, 10 November 1916
 
Dover Straits
 
H. M. W., sailing barge, c75grt (un – 93grt), London for Boulogne with crucibles. Mined, laid by UC.18 (Wilhelm Kiel), sank 1 mile N by W of Boulogne LV, off Pas de Calais; one life lost (H/L/un)
     
Atlantic off NW France
 
MARGA, 674/1908, Cambo Shipping, Cardiff for Lorient with coal. (te/un - 9th) - Captured by UC.18 (Wilhelm Kiel), sunk by gunfire 16 miles N by W of Ushant (H/L/te/un)
     
BOGOTA, 4,577/1906, Liverpool-reg, Pacific Steam Navigation, Coronel/Cristobal for London with general cargo. Torpedoed by U.50 (Gerhard Berger), sank 120 miles SW 1/2 W of Ushant (L/te - in 46.51N, 06.54W) (H/L/te/un)
 
 
Saturday, 11 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
VERONICA, ketch-rigged sailing smack, c27/1907, Lowestoft-reg LT1057 (wi - Brixham-based), William H Painter, Brixham for fishing. Captured by UC.16 (Egon von Werner), sunk by bombs 9 miles of Start Point, Devon (L/wi - 9 miles SE of, in 50.08N, 03.27W) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
     
Malda, passenger & cargo ship, 7,884/1913, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, escaped under cover of weather, third of four attacks in 1916. Sunk 25 August 1917 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Steamship (and an Admiralty collier) captured by U.50 (Gerhard Berger) and sunk by torpedo off Ushant island, off NW Britanny:
 
MORAZAN, 3,486/1905, Liverpool Shipping, armed, Calcutta for Dundee with jute, manganese ore. Sunk 145 miles SW by W of (L/te - in 46.41N, 07.39W); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic of NW Spain
     
City of Cairo, 7,672/1915, Ellerman Lines (Hall Line), Liverpool, armed. Gun attack off Cape Ortegal, saved by own gunfire. Sunk in WW2 (H/ms)     
 
 

Sunday, 12 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Petroline (ms/un – Petroleine), tanker, 4,205/1908, Saxoleine SS Co, Newcastle, sailing New York for Havre & Rouen with benzine. Damaged by unidentified U-boat attack about 12 miles NW by W 1/2 W of Casquet Light, off Alderney, towed into Cherbourg on 14th (L/ms/un only)
 
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
Steamship (and an Admiralty collier) possibly attacked by U.49 (Richard Hartmann) off Cape Ortegal:
 
Clan Buchanan, 5,212/1907, Clan Line Steamers (Cayzer, Irvine), Glasgow, armed. U-boat gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
KAPUNDA, passenger ship, 3,383/1908, Moss SS, armed, Alexandria for Liverpool with general cargo. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank 205 miles ESE of Malta (L/te - in 35N, 18.39E) (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 13 November 1916
 
North Sea
 
Two sailing smack captured by UB.37 (Paul Günther) and sunk by gunfire off Smith's Knoll Spar Buoy, off Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk:
 
SUPERB, ketch-rigged, 50/1902, Lowestoft-reg LT938, J H Stockman, fishing. Sunk 5 miles NE by E of (wi - in52.47N, 02.20E) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
 
OUR BOYS, 63grt, Lowestoft for fishing. Sunk 4 miles N by E of (wi - in 52.47N, 02.19E) (H/L/un/wi)
     
English Channel
 
Two steamships in ballast captured by UB.38 (Erwin Wassner) and sunk by bombs SSE of Beachy Head, Sussex:
 
BERNICIA, 957/1912, Leith-reg, Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet, 20 crew, Mr A Cadman, Rouen for London. UB.38 opened fire at 0910, ship stopped and abandoned, Germans came onboard, took “provisions, brass& tools”, placed scuttling charges below decks, sank 20 miles off (wi - in 50.26N, 00.28E). U-boat crew questioned the master before heading for anunidentified sailing vessel, survivors then rowed to Royal Sovereign LV, later landed by patrol vessel at Newhaven (H/L/te/un/wi)
     
CATERHAM, 1,777/1886, London-reg, John Harrison, 21 crew, Rouen for Newcastle. Sunk 15 miles off (wi - in 50.31N, 00.24E) (H/L/te/un/wi)
     
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
Clan Chisholm, 2,647/1896, Clan Line Steamers (Cayzer, Irvine), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack off Cape Finisterre, saved by own gunfire (H/Mn/ms)
     
Mediterranean
 
Islandia, 2,069 (ms – 2,037)/1889, Watson Lewin & Co, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     

 
Tuesday, 14 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
POLPEDN, 1,510/1902, 1,510grt, London-reg, Farrar, Groves, 20 crew, Mr F Allen, Dunkirk for Ayr in ballast. Torpedoed by UB.38 (Erwin Wassner) at 0330, sank in five minutes 20 miles S of Littlehampton, Sussex (wi - in 50.27.30N, 00.30W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
     
Esneh, cargo steamship, 3,247/1908, J Moss & Co, Liverpool, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 31 May 1917 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
HATSUSE, trawler, 282/1914, Cardiff-reg, Neale & West, Cardiff for fishing. Captured by U.50 (Gerhard Berger), sunk by gunfire 86 miles SW by W of Fastnet Rock (L - in 50.14N, 11W) (H/L/Lr/Mn/un)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Three vessels attacked by U-boat(s) off Ushant, rescued or escaped:
 
Bayhowel, 4,343/1906, King Line (Philipps, Phillips), London. Chased. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)     

Idaho (1), 4,887/1903, Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co, Hull. Torpedoes missed, 190 miles W by N of  (H/ms)

Serbistan, 2,934/1896, F C Strick & Co. Chased. Went missing after 16 November, presumably lost due to maritime causes (H/ms)

 
 
Wednesday, 15 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Saint Leonards, 4,574/1911, British & Foreign SS Co (Rankin, Gilmour), Liverpool. Sailing Philadelphia for Havre with grain. Mined, laid by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow) off Havre (L - about 400yd ESE of Whistling Buoy), damaged, reached Havre (H/L/ms/un)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
LORCA, 4,129/1910, English & American Shipping Co (Bowring), London, sailing Gulfport via Norfolk to Calais with timber, went missing, lost with all hands. Uboat.net confirms her as sunk by U.49 (Richard Harmann) 200 miles W of Ushant (ms/un only)
 
Kintail, 3,537/1907, SS Kincraig Co (Gardiner), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack off Ushant, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Lake Michigan, passenger ship, 9,288grt, armed, Montreal for Brest/London with horses, general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.18 (Wilhelm Kiel) 9 miles off Brest (L - in 48.17N, 04.47W), damaged, towed in to Brest (ms – believed 8,200/1902, Beaver Line (Elder, Dempster), Liverpool. Sunk 16 April 1918; also Montreal-reg, Allan Line SS Co when sunk) (H/L/ms/un)
     

 
Thursday, 16 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
VASCO, 1,914/1895, Hull-reg, Wilson Line, 1-12pdr, 26 crew, Mr W Donaldson, Hull for Marseilles/Naples with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.16 (Egon von Werner), sank 10 miles W by S of Beachy Head, Sussex (L - 9 mile W  1/2 Nof; te - in 50.43N, 00.02W; wi - in 50.39.31N, 00.02E); 17 crew lost including master (H/L/dx/te/un/wi; Casualty list – one naval rating only)
 
VANGUARD, wood ketch, built by J Taylor at Sittingbourne, 142grt, Colchester-reg, Smith Bros, Honfleur for London, no cargo. Captured by UB.40 (Karl Neumann), sunk by bombs 18 miles NW 1/2 N of Cape Antifer, N of Le Havre (un – in 49.53N, 00.13E) (H/L/Lr/un)
         
TREVARRACK, 4,199/1914, Hain SS, Buenos Aires for Hull with maize. Captured by UC.18 (Wilhelm Kiel), sunk by gunfire 25 miles W  1/2 N of Les Hanois rocks, Guernsey (te - in 49.40N, 03.48W) (H/L/te/un)

 
 
Friday, 17 November 1916
     
English Channel
 
Monmouth, 4,078/1900, British & African Steam Navigation Co (Elder, Dempster), Liverpool, armed, sailing Newport News/Cherbourg for Dunkirk with oats, steel. Mined, laid by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow) off Cherbourg, towed in, beached near Harbour entrance, refloated (H/L/ms/un)
 
Kintail, 3,537/1907, SS Kincraig Co (Gardiner), Glasgow, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
         

 
Saturday, 18 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Tanfield, 4,300 (ms – 4,515)/1916, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed.Chased, saved by weather (H/ms)

    
 
Tuesday, 21 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Palm Branch, 3,891/1897, British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co ( P Henderson), Glasgow. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)
     
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
Errington Court, 4,461/1909, Court Line (Haldinstein), London. Gun attack, escaped. Sunk WW2 (H/sm)
     
Aegean Sea
 
BRITANNIC (2), building as passenger ship, 48,158grt, completed as hospital ship in 1915, Liverpool-reg,Oceanic Steam Navigation, in service from 11/15, 625 crew, Mr Bartlett, Southampton/Naples for Mudros with 500 medical officers, nurses, RAMC personnel but no wounded, steaming at 21kts. Mined, laid by U.73 (Gustav Siess), explosion opened starboard side across a watertight bulkhead, forepart watertight door system failed, attempts made to beach her but went down after an hour in the Zea/Cea/Ceos Channel, between island of Zea and SE Greece (L - Port St Nikiolo LH bearing S48ºE mag 3m; wd - 4 miles W of Port St Nikola, Kea Channel); 21 lives lost, mostly from two lifeboats caught by the still rotating propellers, survivors rescued by destroyers Foxhound, Scourge and armed boarding steamer Heroic. Largest British merchant ship ever lost at sea (H/L/Mn/ge/te/tr/un/wd)

 
 
Wednesday, 22 November 1916
 
German raider Möwe sailed from Germany for second cruise in the Atlantic, returned on 22/3/17 after sinking 25 British & Allied ships of 125,265grt
 
English Channel
 
GRENADA, 4-mast steel barque, 2,268/1894, Glasgow-reg, Gwalia Shipping, 22 crew, Mr G Jones, Havre for New York in water ballast, sailing at 5-6kts. UB.40 (Karl Neumann) surfaced close by and opened fire at 1620 hitting mizzen mast, crew abandoned ship, vessel carried on with sails set and chased, sinking not seen but probably shelled, going down 32 miles SW by S of Beachy Head, (wi - in50.17N, 00.10W); crew of 2 Americans, 9 British, 2 Chileans, 1 Dane, 1 Dutchman, 3 Finns, 3 Norwegian, 1 Swede landed at Eastbourne pier early next morning at 0130 (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
BRIERTON, 3,255/1911, West Hartlepool-reg, Sydney Hogg, armed, Karachi for Manchester with grain. Torpedoed by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sank 32 miles SW of Ushant (L/te - in 48N, 05.32W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Peshawur, 7,634/1905, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Glasgow, armed. Chased off Ushant, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 9 October 1917 (H/ms)
     

 
Thursday, 23 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Ernaston, 3,020/1891, Ernaston SS Co (W S Miller), Rouen for Tyne in ballast. Damaged by U-boat attack 10 miles SSW of Dungeness Light, towed to London on 27th (un - by unidentified U-boat-laid mine, 11 miles SSE of Dungeness, on 22 November) (L/ms/un only)     
 
 
Aegean Sea
 
Braemar Castle, hospital ship/passenger ship, 6,318/1898, Union Castle Line, Salonica for Malta with wounded. Mined, laid by U.73 (Gustav Siess) in Mykoni Channel, beached on Tinos island, off SE Greece, refloated, reached Malta 18/2/17; 4 lives lost (H/L/Mn/ge/tr/un)
         
 

Friday, 24 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
JERSEYMAN, 358/1883, Glasgow-reg, Channel Shipping, Swansea for Treport with coal. Torpedoed and sunk by UB.19 (Erick Noodt) 30 miles NW 1/2 W of Dieppe (H/L/Lr/un)     
 
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
Egyptiana, 3,818 (ms – 3,790)/1905. Furness, Withy & Co, armed. (un – 25th) - Gun attack by U.52 (Hans Walther) off Cape Finisterre, damaged, but saved by own gunfire. Sunk 9 June 1917 (H/ms/un)
     

 
Saturday, 25 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
EMLYNVERNE, 544/1894, Emlyn Line, Treport for Swansea in ballast. Captured by UB.18 (Claus Lafrenz), sunk by gunfire 30 miles NW by N of Cape Antifer, near Fecamp (L - about 30 miles NW of; te -in 49.57N, 00.30W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:
 
Arum, 3,681/1914, Flower M S Co (Samuel), London. Sunk 4 September 1918 (H/ms)

Clan Colquhoun, 5,856/1899, Clan Line/Sir C W Cayzer (Cayzer, Irvine), Glasgow (H/ms)

    
 
Sunday, 26 November 1916
         
Mediterranean
 
Highland Heather, 6,036 (ms – 6,027)/1904, Nelson Line (Liverpool), London, armed. Torpedoed and damaged by unidentified U-boat, reached port (H/ms/un)
 
 
     
Monday, 27 November 1916
 
Naval Aviation - Maiden flight of British Rigid airship R.9 took place around now, a design first proposed in 1913 to match the German Zeppelin, later accepted by the Admiralty in March 1917 for patrol and convoy work.
 
English Channel
 
RHONA, 640/1909, M. Murphy, Cardiff for St Servan with coal. Captured by UB.18 (Clau Lafrenz), sunk by bombs 19 miles NW by N of Guernsey (H/L/te/un)
 
Huntscape, ex-German, 2,933/1911, British Government, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
MAUDE LARSSEN, 1,222/1897, Maude SS, Bagnoli for Seville in ballast. Captured by U.63 (Otto Schultze), sunk by bombs 22 miles WSW of Marittimo Is, off W Sicily (L - 25 miles WSW of) (H/L/te/un)
     
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, passenger ship, 7,498/1911, Liverpool-reg, Hall Line, armed, 145 crew, Mr W Haughton, Liverpool for Karachi with 170 passengers including women and children, general cargo. Torpedoed by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig), sank 90 miles SE of Malta (L - in 36.01N, 16E); 4 crew lost, additionally (it appears) the Captain went down with the ship, survivors taken off with difficulty in heavy swell (H/L/Mn/te/un/wd)
     
Eastern Mediterranean
 
REAPWELL, Admiralty collier, 3,417/1900, London-reg, Maritime Investments, armed, Cardiff for Malta/Port Said with coal, general cargo. Torpedoed by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sank 148 miles NW by N of Alexandria (te - in 33.37N,27.35E); master taken prisoner (H/L/Lr/Mn/te/un)

 
     
Tuesday, 28 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
Three vessels captured by UB.39 (Heinrich Küstner) and sunk by bombs off Owers LV, off Selsey Bill, Sussex:
 
RAMSGARTH, 1,553/1910, Liverpool-reg, South Metropolitan Gas, 19 crew, Mr T Appleton, Cardiff/Brixham for Tyne in water ballast, heading E 1/2 S at 11kts. Sunk 11 miles E by S of (L - 9 miles E of; wi - in50.40.01N, 00.23.33W) (H/L/te/un/wi)     
 
ALISON, 286/1908, Liverpool-reg, Northwich Carrying Co, 7 crew, Mr H Mills, Havre for Littlehampton with government stores. Sunk 8 miles ESE of (wi - 8 miles SE of, in 50.34.48N, 00.26.34W); survivors picked up by SS Southern Coast at 0830 and landed at Newhaven (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
ALERT (1), 289/1897, London-reg, J B Knapton, Mr G Croxford, Havre for Littlehampton in ballast. Sunk 6 miles ESE of(un – ENE of; wi - in 50.35N 00.32W) (H/L/Lr/wi/un)
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Six vessels captured, five sunk and one damaged by UB.37 (Paul Gunther) off Dorset and Devon:
 
AMPHITRITE, ketch-rigged smack, 44/1905, Brixham-reg BM248, Richard Soper, fishing. Sunk by gunfire 24 miles Wby S of Portland Bill (wi - in 50.24N, 03.04W) (H/L/bm/wi)
 
PROVIDENT, ketch-rigged smack, 38/1910, Brixham-reg BM291, William Pillar, saved some 70 survivors from battleship Formidable in 1915, fishing. Sunk by bombs 24 miles W by S of Portland Bill (wi - in 50.24N, 03.04W) (H/L/bm/wi)
     
SEA LARK, ketch-rigged smack, 42/1900, Brixham-reg BM13, Robert Jackman Snr, Brixham for fishing. Sunk by gunfire 24miles SE by S of Berry Head (wi - in 50.15N, 02.53W) (H/L/bm/wi)
 
DILIGENCE (1), fishing vessel (L - trawler; wi - sail), 42grt, Brixham for fishing. Sunk about 25 miles off Berry Head (wi - in 50.00N, 03.20W) (L/wi)
         
CATENA, ketch-rigged smack, c36/1910, Brixham-reg BM299, Samuel Thomas Evans Locke, Brixham for fishing. Sunk by gunfire 25 miles SW by S of Berry Head (bm - 25 miles SE by E; wi - in 49.50N, 03.56W) (H/L/bm/wi)
 
Lynx, trawler, 43grt, fishing. Damaged about 25 miles off Berry Head, towed into Brixham (L/un)
 
Three more captured and sunk in same area by UC.21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel):
 
CLEMATIS, smack, 22grt, Brixham for fishing. Sunk by bombs below decks 35 miles SE of Start Point (wi - in 49.49N, 02.59W)(H/L/wi)
 
LADY OF THE LAKE (1), sailing vessel, 79grt, Cardiff for Alderney with coal. Sunk by gunfire 35 miles SE of Start Point (H/L)
 
VULCAN, smack, 27grt, Brixham for fishing. Sunk by bombs 28 miles SE by E of Berry Head (wi - in 50.02N, 03.04W) (H/L/wi)             
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Ballater, 2,286/1894, Monroe Rutherford, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (sunk as Greleen, 22 September 1917) (H/ms/te)
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):
 
Megantic, passenger liner, 14,878/1909, Oceanic Steam Navigation Co (Ismay, Imrie), Liverpool. Chased, escaped (H/ms)

Pikepool, 3,683/1909, Pool Shipping Co (Ropner), West Hartlepool. Torpedo missed. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
 
Eastern Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships torpedoed and sunk by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), NW by N of Alexandria, Egypt:
 
KING MALCOM, 4351/1906, Scottish SS, Marseilles for Mauritius in water ballast. Sank 144 miles off (L/te - in 33.14N, 28.23E); master taken prisoner (H/L/Mn/te/un)     
 
MORESBY, 1,763/1881, Moller & Co, Saigon for Dunkirk with rice. Sank 120 miles off (L/te - in 32.36N 28.38E); 33 lives lost (H/L/te/un; Casualty list – one naval rating only)
     

 
Wednesday, 29 November 1916
 
English Channel
 
GRACE (1), 3-mast schooner, 135/1867, Portsmouth-reg, Mrs Elizabeth Murdock, Saul, Gloucester, sailing from Charlestown, Cornwall for Rouen with clay in bulk and casks. Captured by UB.39 (Heinrich Küstner), sunk by bomb, 40 miles SE by E of Start Point, Devon (H/L/Lr/un)
     
Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:
 
Kandy, ex-German, 4,921 (ms – 5,049)/1904, presumably British Government, armed (H/ms)

Polanna
, ex-German, 2,345 (ms – 2,335)/1893, British Government. Sunk 6 August 1917 (H/ms)
     
Atlantic off SW England
 
Swazi, 4,941/1901, Bucknall SS Lines (Bucknall Bros), London. Chased at entrance to English Channel, rescued (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
     
MINNEWASKA, troopship/passenger ship, 14,317/1909, London-reg, Atlantic Transport, armed, Alexandria for Malta in ballast (wd - for Mudros with 1,800 troops). Mined and severely damaged, laid by UC.23 (Johannes Kirchner) in Suda Bay, NW Crete (L - 1 1/2 m SE mag of Dentero Point; wd - 1 1/2 m SW of Dentero Point in SudaBay), run ashore but written off as total loss. Wreck broken up by Italian company late 1918 (H/L/ge/te/unwd)

 
 
Thursday, 30 November 1916
 
German commerce raider Wolf 5,809grt, 6-5.9in/465 mines/1 seaplane sailed from Germany for Indian and Pacific Oceans, captured 14 British& Allied ships of 38,391grt, laid mines which sank 13 more ships off South Africa, India, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Australia
     
UB.19 sunk by Q-ship Penshurst (Q.7) in English Channel, N of Channel Is
 
English Channel
 
Three small sailing vessels captured by three different U-boats and sunk by bombs off Dorset and Devon:
 
HEINRICH, c98grt, 5 crew, London for St Malo with pitch. UB.29 (Heinz Ziemer) appeared at 1445 about 1 1/2 m distant and fired two shots, vessel heaved to, crew abandoned ship,submarine approached the boats, took ship’s papers, then boarded and placed scuttling charges below decks - “three or four reports” were heard, sank, 29 miles S by E of Start Point (L/wi - about 29 miles SE by E of, in 50.00N 02.58W); crew rowed ashore, landing at Salcombe early next morning at 0330 (H/L/un/wi)
     
BEHREND, 3-mast steel schooner, 141/1906, London-reg, W Schuchmann, London for Brest with guano. Sunk by UB.19 (Erich Noodt), 35 miles SW of Portland Bill (L/wi - 25 SW ofm of, in 50.24N, 03.04W) (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
CONCORD, ketch-rigged smack, 42/1898, Brixham-reg BM91, John Henry Skedgel, Brixham for fishing. Sunk by UB.37 (Paul Günther), 28 miles SE by S of Start Point (wi - in 49.52N, 03.08W) (H/L/bm/un/wi)
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Ibex, 951grt, armed. Chased, escaped (ms – believed 1,150/1891, Great Western Railway Co, Milford Haven) (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
CHRISTABEL, schooner, 175/1867, Faversham-reg, Whitstable Shipping, Fowey for Garston with silversand. Stoppedby UB.18 (Claus Lafrenz), sunk by bomb 10 miles N by W of St Ives, Cornwall (L - 12 miles NE by N of Pendeen; wi- in 50.20N, 05.40W) Note: uboat.net includes Christabel as one of eight vessels, three British, sunk on this date – see 1 December (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
Atlantic off NW France
 
Two vessels attacked off Ushant:
 
Eggesford, 4,414/1914, Tatem Steam Navigation Co, Cardiff, sailing Bordeaux for Cardiff in ballast. Captured by UC.21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel) and damaged 30 miles N of, towed into Brest Roads on 3 December. Lost WW2 (H/L/ms/un)
 
Verdala, 5,880/1913, Verdala SS Co (Gow, Harrison), Glasgow. Gun attack, rescued. Scuttled at Normandy 1944 (H/ms)     
     
Central Mediterranean
 
ROMA, sailing vessel, 99grt (L - 125grt), Naples for St Johns (NF) in ballast. Captured by U.63 (Otto Schutlze), sunk by gunfire off E coast of Sardinia (L - 150 miles W by S 1/2 S of Naples) (H/L/un)



      
 
DECEMBER 1916
 
British Merchant Vessels Lost to Enemy Action in December: 58 merchant ships totalling 182,292grt - 10 of 51,999grt to surface ships, 36 of 109,936grt to submarines, 12 of 20,357grt to mines, plus 6 British fishing vessels totalling 436grt - 3 of 224grt to submarines, 3 of 212grt to mines (H)

 
Friday, 1 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
CAMELLIA, sailing smack, 46grt, fishing. Mined, sank off Eddystone Rocks, off Plymouth; 3 lives lost, including Skipper (H only)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
Two ketch-rigged sailing smack fishing captured by UB.18 (Claus Lafrenz) and sunk by bombs off Trevose Head, Cornwall. Note: uboat.net lists these as two of eight vessels, three British, sunk on 30 November:
 
E. L. G., 25/1908, Ramsgate-reg, E G Grant. Sunk 25 miles NW of (wi - in 50.50N, 05.30W) (H/L/bm/wi)
 
T. and A. C., 23/1901, Lowestoft-reg or based, William Brown. Sunk 20 miles NNW of (wi - in 50.50N,05.30W) (H/L/bm/wi)     
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BRIARDENE, 2,701/1882, St John's (NF)-reg, Colchester SS, 27 crew, New York for London with 2,600t generalcargo, zig-zagging at 8 1/2 kts. UC.19 (Alfred Nitzsche) surfaced, fired two shells and Briardene stopped, abandoned after a third shell, Germans then placed four demolition charges, sinking her 12 1/2 m SE by S of Bishop Rock, Scillies (L/te - in 49.45N, 06.11W; wi -12 milesSE by S, in 49.46.07N, 06.12.15W), ship’s papers taken from the master in one of the lifeboats; the survivors - “12 British, 2 Peruvians, 2 Argentinians, 3 Russian Finns, 3 Chilians, 1 Puerto Rican, 1 Norwegian, 1 Mexican and 2 Spanish”, picked up by SS Luna, landed at Falmouth (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
KING BLEDDYN, 4,387/1905, King Line, New York for Havre with machinery, general cargo. Captured by UC.21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel), sunk by bombs 30 miles S by W  1/2 W of Ushant (L/te - in 47.54N, 05.07W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Dykland, 4,291/1914, Fred Drughorn, London, armed. Gun attack off Ushant, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 22 April 1917 (H/ms)
 
Mediterranean
 
Dunachton, 5,201/1912, Dunedin SS Co (Henderson & McIntosh), Leith, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
BURCOMBE, 3,516/1913, London-reg, Burdick & Cook, armed, Karachi for Hull with grain. Torpedoed by UC.22 (Heino von Heimburg), sunk 100 miles SE by E of Malta (L - in 35.02N, 16.23E); 2 or 3 lives lost (H/L/te/un)

 
 
Saturday, 2 December 1916
 
Arctic Sea
 
Umona, 3,753/1910, Bullard, King & Co, London, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off S Ireland
     
HARPALUS, 1,445/1895, London-reg, Federated Coal & Shipping, Mr D Thomas, Penarth for Nantes with coal, steaming southat 7 1/2 kts. Captured by UB.23 (Heinz Ziemer), sunk by bombs 34 miles SSW of Galley Head, S of Clonakilty (L/wi - 36miles SW of, in 51.00.12N, 09.35W; te - in 50.56N, 08.58W) (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
Kintuck, 4,616 (also 4,639; ms – 4,447)/1895, China Mutual Steam Navigation Co, London, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 2 December 1917 (H/ms)     
 
Atlantic W of Ireland
 
VOLTAIRE (1), passenger cargo ship, 8,618/1907, Liverpool-reg, Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation, armed, 95 crew, Liverpool for New York in ballast. Captured by Möwe, sunk with explosive charges 650 miles W 1/2 N true from Fastnet Rock, Co Cork (H/L/Mn/kp/wd)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
PALACINE, 3,286/1904, Canadian-registered, Imperial Oil, New York for Havre/Rouen with lubricating oil in barrels. Captured by UB.39 (Heinrich Küstner), sunk by bombs 18 miles ENE of Ushant (L - 18 miles E by N 1/2 N of; te - in 48.40N, 04.43W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):
 
Nagoya, passenger & cargo ship, 6,854/1913, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Greenock. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

Reims, 3,717/1901, Unioin Shipping & Trading Co. Chased, escaped (H/ms)
 
Eastern Mediterranean
 
ISTRAR, 4,582/1896, Anchor-Brocklebank Line, armed, Liverpool for Calcutta with coal, general cargo. Torpedoed by U.39 (Walter Forstmann), sank 120 miles NNW  1/2 W of Alexandria (L/te - in 33N 28.40E); one life lost, chief engineer taken prisoner (H/L/Mn/te/un)
     

 
Sunday, 3 December 1916
     
U-boat warfare - In a new area of operations for U-boats, U.38 sank British SS Dacia, French gunboat Surprise and depot/docking-ship Kanguru off Funchal, Madeira, then shelled the town for two hours
 
English Channel
 
Two empty sailing vessels captured by UB.18 (Claus Lafrenz) and sunk by bombs:
 
MIZPAH, wood ketch, 57/1883, Jersey-reg, J C Renouf, 4 crew, St Malo for Charlestown, heading NNW, close-hauled at 3kts. U-boat surfaced close by at 0955, shots fired and crewabandoned ship at 1010, charges in hold exploded at 1035, sank 30 miles SSE of Eddystone Rocks, off Plymouth (wi - in 49.48.30N, 03.45W), ship’s papers andprovisions taken on board the U-boat; survivors picked up by Danish SS Laura two days later at 1100, brought to The Downs (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
SEEKER, schooner, 74/1879, Jersey-reg, E Gill, St Malo for Plymouth in ballast. Sunk 30 miles NW of Les Hanois rocks, Guernsey (H/L/Lr/un)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Tapton, 3,569/1904, Ilderton SS Co (Steel, Young), London, armed. Gun attack off Ushant, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
 
Western Mediterranean
 
Lucellum, tanker, 5,184/1913, H E Moss & Co’s Tankers, Liverpool, armed, sailing New Orleans for Spezia with petroleum cargo. Torpedoed by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig) near San Rafaele, towed into Villefranche on 6th (H/L/ms/un)
 
Atlantic off Madeira islands
 
DACIA, 1,856/1867, London-reg, India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works, Gibraltar for Madeira, picked up cable (te - with cable). Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sank in Funchal Roads, Madeira island (H/L/Cn/ge/te/un)

    
 
Monday, 4 December 1916
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Three steamships attacked by U-boat(s) off Ushant:
 
Taxandrier, 4,231/1900, Brys & Gyslen, sailing New York for Havre with general cargo. Gun attack (L - in 48.45N, 04.25W), rescued, damaged according toLloyds. Went missing after 13 February 1917 (H/L/ms)     

Rossia, 4,576grt. Chased, escaped (no further information)

Sutherland Grange, 6,852/1907, British Maritime Trust (Furness, Withy), West Hartlepool. Gun attack, escaped (H/ms)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
CALEDONIA (1), troopship/passenger ship, 9,223/1904, Glasgow-reg, Anchor Line, armed, Mr James Blaikie, Salonica for Marseilles with bags of mail. Torpedoed by U.65 (Hermann von Fischel), sank 125 miles E by S of Malta (L/te/wd - in 35.40N, 17.05E); one life lost. The master attempted to ram the attacking U-boat, was taken prisoner, later threatened with execution by the German government, but reprieved when Britain responded that a German officer prisoner would be similarly dealt with (H/L/Mn/ge/te/un/wd)
     

 
Tuesday, 5 December 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships shelled by U-boat(s), saved by own gunfire:
 
Camberwell, 4,078/1903, Tyzack & Branfoot SS Co, Sunderland. Sunk 18 May 1917 (H/ms)

Castalia, 6,396 (ms – 6,388)/1906, Anchor Line (Henderson Bros), Glasgow (H/ms)

 
     
Wednesday, 6 December 1916
 
UC.19 sunk by destroyer Ariel in Atlantic off SW England (un - but see fate of UB.29 on 13 December)
 
English Channel
 
Poona, passenger ship, 7,626/1905, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P&O), Glasgow, armed, London for Calcutta with general cargo. Mined, laid by unidentified U-boat in 50.39N, 00.03W, towed into Newhaven Roads (H/L/ms/un)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
John Sanderson, 3,274/1889, Taylor & Sanderson, Sunderland, armed. Gun attack in entrance to English Channel, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Atlantic W of Ireland
 
Two vessels captured and sunk by German raider Möwe off Fastnet Rock, off Co Cork:
 
MOUNT TEMPLE, passenger cargo ship, 9,792/1901, Canadian Pacific Railway, armed, Mr Sargent, Montreal for Brest/London with horses, wheat, 1,400t merchandise. Ordered to stop, refused and shelled, on boarding sea cocks opened and explosive charges placed, sank 620 miles W  1/2 S true of (L - 620 miles S  1/2 W true of); 3 lives lost during shelling, survivors taken prisoner (H/L/Mn/kp/wd)
 
DUCHESS OF CORNWALL (1), 3-mast schooner, 152/1901, St Johns (NF)-reg, Robert Moulton, St Johns (NF) for Gibraltar withfish. Sunk 620 miles W 1/2 S true of (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)
     

 
Thursday, 7 December 1916
 
UB.46 probably sunk by Russian mine in Black Sea off NW Turkish coast
 
English Channel
 
CONCH, bulk petroleum tanker, 5,620/1909, London-reg, Anglo-Saxon Petroleum, armed, Calcutta/Rangoon for River Thameswith benzine. (L/dx/te/un - 8th) - Torpedoed by UB.23 (Heinz Ziemer), sank 12 miles S by W 1/2 W of Anvil Point, S of Poole, Dorset (L - 29 miles S26ºE ofPortland Bill; te/un - in 50.23N, 02.02W; un – 10 miles S of Poole); 28 lives lost including master (H/L/Mn/dx/te/un; Casualty list, dated 8th – 2 naval ratings only)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
Two steamships attacked by U-boat(s) off Scillies:
 
Keltier, 2,360/1913, Belgian-owned, presumably on charter to British Government, sailing Newcastle (NB) for Calais with timber. Attacked 40 miles W of, towed to Falmouth, beached E side of harbour entrance on 12th, later refloated. Sunk 2 October 1918 (L/ms only)
     
Usher, 3,594/1901, Usher SS Co (Cann), Greenock, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire, attacked again next day. Sunk 27 October 1917 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
AVRISTAN, 3,818/1901, Swansea-reg, Strick Line, Portland (Me) for London with wheat, general cargo. Torpedoed by UC.21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel), sank 14 miles S by W  1/2 W of Ushant (L - in 47.13N, 05.12W); one life lost (H/L/te/un)
     
 

Friday, 8 December 1916
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Usher, 3,594/1901, Usher SS Co (Cann), Greenock, armed. Chased W of Ushant, saved by own gunfire, also attacked the day before. Sunk 27 October 1917 (H/ms)
 
Western Atlantic
 
KING GEORGE, 3,852/1906, Glasgow-reg, Glasgow King Shipping, Philadelphia for Manchester with general cargo, including 600t gunpowder. Captured by Möwe, scuttled 700 miles E 1/2 N true from Cape Race, Newfoundland (H/L/Mn/kp)
     
Atlantic off Portugal
 
BRITANNIA (2), 1,814/1902, London-reg, John Hall Jnr, armed, London for Gibraltar with government stores, munitions. Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sank 70 miles W by S of Cape Sines, to the S of Lisbon (te - in37.18N, 10.29W); 2 lives lost, master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     
Antar, 3,580/1906, Egypt & Levant SS Co (Bowen Rees), London, armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire. Sunk WW2 (H/ms)
  
 
 
Saturday, 9 December 1916
 
North Sea
 
Three steamships mined in field laid by UC.11 (Benno von Ditfurth):
 
FORTH, 1,159/1886, Grangemouth-reg, Carron Co, 24 crew, Mr J Ratcliffe, London for Leith with general cargo. Sank 4miles SW of Shipwash LV, off Orford Ness, Suffolk (L - about 4m, between SW and SW by S of; wi - 4 miles SW by S of, in 51.58.50N, 01.45E). Insured for War Risks by the North of England Association for £2,607 (H/L/te/un/wi)
     
HARLINGTON, 1,089/1913, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation, Newcastle for London with coal. Sank 4 miles SW of Shipwash LV; 7 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
     
HARLYN, 1,794/1915, Harrison's Ltd, Newcastle for London with coal. Sank 4 miles SW of Shipwash LV (L - 3-4 miles NE 1/2 E of); 2 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic off S Ireland
 
Astyanax, 4,872/1906, China Mutual Steam Navigation Co (Alfred Holt), Liverpool, armed. Chased, escaped. Scuttled Singapore 1942 (H/ms)
     
Western Atlantic
 
CAMBRIAN RANGE, 4,234/1906, Liverpool-reg, Neptune Steam Navigation, Baltimore for Liverpool with wheat, general cargo. Captured by Möwe early in the day, sunk by bombs 610 miles E 1/2 S true from Cape Race, Newfoundland (H/L/Mn/kp)

    
 
Sunday, 10 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
STRATHALBYN, 4,331/1909, Burrell & Son, New York for Havre with general cargo. Mined, laid by UC.26 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), sank 2 miles NE of Cherbourg breakwater (L - 2miles N60ºE of Central Fort, Cherbourg; te - in 49.41N, 01.37W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Western Atlantic
 
GEORGIC, 10,077/1895, Liverpool-reg, Oceanic Steam Navigation, armed with stern gun, Philadelphia for Liverpool with horses, oil, wheat, general cargo. Ordered to stop by Möwe, refused and fire opened on her, hove to and inspected, sea cocks opened and explosive charges set but went down slowly, finished off by torpedo 590 miles ESE true from Cape Race, Newfoundland; one man killed by the shelling (H/L/Mn/kp)
 
Mediterranean
 
Rosefield, 3,089/1896, Rosefield SS Co (F Woods), London, armed; two torpedoes missed (H/ms)

 
     
Monday, 11 December 1916
 
Western Atlantic
 
YARROWDALE, 4,652/1912, Glasgow-reg, Mackill SS, cargo included coal, steel and around 100 motorvehicles. Captured by Möwe 540 miles SE 1/2 E true of Cape Race (kp - in 42N, 18W). Ship placed under command of Unteroffizier Badewitz (the same petty officer interned in Spain in February who escaped), prisoners transferred on board and taken by prize crew into Swinemunde by the 31st. Converted to commerce raider Leopard, sunk 16/3/17 (H/L/Lr/Mn/kp)

 
     
Tuesday, 12 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
Two vessels sunk by UB.38 (Wilhelm Amberger)
 
COATH, 975/1882, Penzance-reg, George Bazeley & Sons, from Havre. Torpedoed off Beachy Head, Sussex (original sources - possibly mined), 16 lives lost including master (H/Lr/te/un)
     
CONRAD, steel schooner, 164/1899, was Brake, Germany-reg, H Arnold, Dieppe for Runcorn with flintstone. Captured, sunk by bombs, 40 miles SSE of St Catherines Point, IoW(L/un - 45 miles SSE of) (H/L/Lr/un)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
ST URSULA, 5,011/1912, British & Foreign SS, armed, Salonica for Newport News in ballast. Torpedoed by U.32 (Kurt Hartwig), sank 45 miles SE by S of Malta (L/te - in 35.16N, 15.08E); 4 lives lost (H/L/te/un)
 
Atlantic off Azores
 
SAINT or ST THEODORE, 4,992/1913, Liverpool-reg, British & Foreign SS, Norfolk for Savona with 7,000t coal. Captured by Möwe 520 miles W 1/2 S true of Flores (kp - in 39.30N, 17.30E), placed under command of Fahnrich (midshipman) Kohler, met up with Möwe on 23rd, converted and armed as tender/raider Geier, command transferred to Lt-Cdr Wolf, sank two small sailing vesssels, then with coal bunkers low, scuttled in central Atlantic on 12/2/17 (kp - 14/2/17, in 21.01S, 31.49W) (H/L/Mn/kp)
 
   
 
Wednesday, 13 December 1916
 
UB.29 sunk by destroyer Landrail in Dover Straits off Goodwin Sands, first U-boat sinking by depth charge alone (un – the victim of this attack may have been UC.19 although she was reportedly sunk on 6 December)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
BRETWALDA, 4,037/1911, Newcastle-reg, Hall Bros SS, armed, Calcutta for Boulogne with jute. Torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin), sank 220 miles E by S of Malta (L/te - in 35.30N, 19.05E) (H/L/te/un)
         

 
Thursday, 14 December 1916
 
North Sea
 
BURNHOPE, 1,941/1907, Newcastle-reg, Burnett SS, 18 crew, Mr J Rodger, Hartlepool for London with 2,600t coal, proceeding at c9kts. Mined, laid by UC.32 (Herbert Breyer), sank in Hartlepool Bay, Tees estuary (L -  1/2 m S by E 1/2 E of Hartlepool Bar Buoy; wi -  1/2  mile SE by E  1/2 E of, in 54.40.58N, 01.08.51W); master lost his life (H/L/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
Hildawell, 2,494/1892, G B Harland & Co, West Hartlepool. Chased off Ushant, rescued. Sunk on the 20th (H/ms)
 
Bay of Biscay
 
GLENCOE, 2,560/1900, Bolivian General Enterprise, Glasgow for Bordeaux with coal. Captured by UC.18 (Wilhelm Kiel), sunk by torpedo about 14 miles NNW of lle d’Yeu, S of St Nazaire (te - in 46.54N, 02.38W)(H/L/te/un)     
 
NW Mediterranean
 
Caledonia (2), passenger ship, 7,572 (ms – 7,558)/1894, Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, Greenock, armed, sailing Bombay for London. Mined, laid by U.72 (Ernst Krafft) 3 miles E of Planier Is Light, damaged, arrived Marseilles; one life lost (H/L/ms/un)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships torpedoed by UB.43 (Hans von Mellenthin) off Malta:
 
WESTMINSTER, 4,342/1905, Westminster Shipping, Torre Annuziata for Aden in water ballast. Sank 196 miles E by S of (L/te - in about 35.35N, 18.23E); 15 lives lost including master (H/L/dk/te/un)
 
RUSSIAN, merchant ship/horse-transport, 8,825/1895, Leyland Line, Salonica for Newport (Mon) in ballast. Sank 210 miles E by S of (L/te - in 35.30N, 18.52E); 28 lives lost (H/L/dk/ge/te/un; Casualty list – 1 naval rating only)

     
 
Friday, 15 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
CONSTANCE MARY, 3-mast schooner, 177/1875, Fleetwood-reg, A Westcott, Caen for Swansea with iron ore. Captured by UC.17 (Ralph Wenninger), sunk by bombs 20 miles NE of Cape Barfleur, Cherbourg peninsular (H/L/Lr/un)
     
Atlantic off SW England
 
NAIAD, full-rigged steel ship, 1,907/1889, Liverpool-reg, J B Walmsley & Co, 25 crew, Mr T Davies, London for Buenos Aires with 2,837t cement & pipes/cement pipes, all sail set at 6kts. UB.38 (Wilhelm Amberger) fired two warning shells from 1 1/2 m away, ship heaved to and crew abandoned, fired five more rounds into the hull which failed to sink her, torpedo fired at close range, hit aft, sank 25 miles SE by S of Bishop Rock,Scillies (wi - in 49.42N, 05.51W), two approaching patrol trawlers opened fire and the U-boat submerged; survivors picked up by trawlers, landed at St. Mary's(H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
Atlantic off S Ireland
 
Queen, 4,956/1907, The Burn Ltd (Shankland), Greenock, armed, Taranto for Barry in ballast. (L - 13th) - Gun attack (L - in 48.40N, 09.10W), saved by own gunfire, damaged according to Lloyds. Sunk 28 June 1918 (H/L/ms)
     
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
Rio Tinto, 2,165/1888, J Tully, Sunderland, armed. Gun attack 150 miles SW by S of Fastnet, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Bay of Biscay
 
Vancouver, 4,419/1905, Vancouver SS Co (Gow, Harrison), Glasgow, sailing Baltimore for La Pallice with brass, copper, rails and wood. Gun attack (L - in 47.25N, 03.49W), rescued, damaged according to Lloyds (H/L/ms)
     
 

Saturday, 16 December 1916
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
Englishman (2), sailing vessel, 144grt. Gun attack N of Scillies, rescued
     
Atlantic West of Gibraltar
 
Maryland, 4,731/1913, Atlantic Transportation Co, Belfast, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)

        
 
Sunday, 17 December 1916
 
North Sea
 
ATHOLE (1), trawler, 112/1891, Granton-reg, General Steam Fishing, Skipper W Scott, Granton for fishing.Mined, possibly laid by unidentified U-boat, sank 8 miles E by S of Tod Head, S of Stonehaven (L - Tod Head bearing W by N 8m, Girdle Ness NNE 16m; wi - 16miles NNE of Girdle Ness, in 57.44N, 01.38W); no lives lost (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
MARGARET (1), fishing vessel (L/wi – trawler; un – sailing vessel), 54grt, 6 crew, fishing. Mined, laid by UC.21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel), sank offshore between Hastings and Dungeness (wi - in 50.52N, 00.01E); all 6 crewlost, including Skipper (H/L/un/wi)
     
PASCAL, 5,587/1913, Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation, Halifax (NS) for Cherbourg with government cargo. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by torpedo 12 miles N of Casquets, W of Alderney island (te - in 49.55N,02.27W); 2 lives lost, master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)     
 
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
BAYHALL, 3,898/1906, London-reg, Bay SS, Port Louis for Bordeaux with sugar. Captured by U.46 (Leo Hillebrand), sunk by bombs 90 miles N by E of Cape Ortegal (L/te - in 45.16N, 08.W); master taken prisoner(H/L/te/un)
     
Mediterranean
 
Petrograd, 1,713/1891, Ben Line (Thomson), armed. Chased, saved by own gunfire. Sunk Spanish Civil War 1939(H/ms)
 

     
Monday, 18 December 1916
 
North Sea
 
ARRAN, trawler, 176/1905, Hull-reg H820, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice, Hull for fishing. Captured by UB.34 (Theodor Schultz), sunk by gunfire 110 miles E of Longstone, Farne Is (L - in 56.06N, 01.40E) (H/L/Lr/hw/un)
 
Irish Sea
 
OPAL, 599/1894, Glasgow-reg, William Robertson, Glasgow, Mr D Martin, Llandulais for Belfast/Glasgow with limestone. Mined, laid by U.80 (Alfred von Glasenapp), sank off Isle of Man (wi - in 54.20N, 04W); 12 crew lost including master (H/L/ge/te/un/wi)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
FLIMSTON, 5,751/1916, Evan Thomas, Radcliffe, Buenos Aires for London with maize. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by bombs 21 miles N by E 1/2 E of Ushant (te - in 48.48N, 05.08W); master, chief engineer taken prisoner (H/te/un)
     
Atlantic off Azores
 
DRAMATIST, 5,415/1914, Liverpool-reg, Charente SS, San Francisco/St Lucia for Liverpool with explosives, fruit, general cargo. Stopped by Möwe with shot across the bow, boarded and supply of fruit taken off, sea cocks opened and explosive charges laid, sank 490 miles SW 1/2  S true from Flores island, W Azores (L - in 33.08N, 37.32W) (H/L/Mn/kp)
     

 
Tuesday, 19 December 1916
 
Irish Sea
 
LIVERPOOL, passenger ship, 686/1892, Sligo-reg, Sligo Steam Navigation, Liverpool for Sligo with general cargo. (L/wi - 20th) - Mined, laid by U.80 (Alfred von Glasenapp), sank 11 miles SE by S of Chicken Rock Light, off Calfof Man island, IoM (te - in 53.49N 04.23W; wi - 53.53N, 04.38W); 3 crew lost (H/L/ge/te/un/wi)
 
Mediterranean
 
Dartmoor, 2,870/1892, South Shields SS Co (Runciman), South Shields, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 27 May 1917 (H/ms)
    

 
Wednesday, 20 December 1916
 
North Sea
     
HILDAWELL, 2,494/1892, Thomas W Willis, sailed Bilbao 12th for Middlesbrough with iron ore, dropped Downs pilot off Yarmouth on 19th, went missing, posted by Lloyds 24/1/17, “presumed by Admiralty to have been sunk by mine in the North Sea on Dec. 20 1916”. Confirmed as mined, laid by by UC.32 (Herbert Breyer) off Sunderland, Co Durham; 22 lives lost including master (H/L/te/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Griqua, 3,344/1902, Bucknall SS Lines, London, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire (H/ms)
     
Central Mediterranean
 
ITONUS, passenger ship, 5,340/1898, British India Steam Navigation, armed, Marseilles for Sydney with tiles. Torpedoed by U.38 (Max Valentiner), sank 60 miles NW by W 1/2 W of Malta (L - 80 miles W of Malta); 5 lives lost, master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
 

    
Thursday, 21 December 1916
 
German sailing raider Seeadler, 1,571grt, 2-4.1in sailed from Germany for the Pacific, captured 16 British & Allied ships of 30,099grt(kp - armed with 2-3.45in (88mm), sank 14 ships of 28,140grt)
 
Atlantic off SW Ireland
 
Arracan, 5,520/1912, British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co & Burmah SS Co (P Henderson), Glasgow. Chased, escaped (H/ms)
     
 

Friday, 22 December 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Clan Stuart, 5,775/1916, Clan Line/Cayzer, Irvine & Co, Glasgow, armed. Torpedo missed. Lost WW2 (H/ms)
 
 

Saturday, 23 December 1916
 
Bristol Channel
     
Bertrand, 3,613/1913, Turnbull Bros Shipping Co, Cardiff. Gun attack, rescued. Sunk 6 July 1918 (H/ms)
 
Atlantic off SW England
 
William Middleton, 2,543/1893, James Westoll. Sunderland, sailing Boulogne for Dublin in ballast. Captured by UC.46 (Friedrich Moecke) 4 miles NNW of Lundy Is, damaged but rescued, beached at Tenby on 24th, refloated, taken to Port Talbot (H/L/ms/un)
     
Bay of Biscay
 
Wisbech, 1,282/1901, Wisbech SS Co (Atkinson Bros), Newcastle, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 14 August 1917 (H/ms)
 
Eastern Mediterranean
 
Benalder, 3,044/1898 (ms – 1895), W Thomson & Co, Leith, armed, sailing Manila for Marseilles with general cargo. Torpedoed and damaged by U.21 (Otto Hersing) in 34.14N, 28.15E), reached Alexandria (H/L/ms/un)
     
Eastern Mediterranean
 
THISTLEBAN, 4,117/1910, Albyn Line, armed, Karachi for Hull with linseed, peas and rape seed. At the time, believed torpedoed by submarine 5 miles NNW fromAlexandria (L - 4 miles N of No.1 Beacon), later confirmed as damaged by mine laid by U.73 (Gustav Siess), beached, total loss (H/L/te/un)

    
 
Sunday, 24 December 1916
 
Bristol Channel
 
Paul Paix, tanker, 4,196/1908, Lennard’s Carrying Co (Lennard), Middlebrough, armed, sailing Dunkirk for Swansea in water ballast. Mined, laid by UC.46 (Friedrich Moecke) 2 miles S by W 1/2 W of Mumbles Head, damaged and towed in (H/L/ms/un)
 
Atlantic off NW France
 
BARGANY, 872/1911, Glasgow-reg, Hendry, McCallum & Co ( 1/2 ) (un – Bargany SS Co (Ernest T Morgan)), Cardiff for Lorient with coal. Captured by UC.17 (Ralph Wenninger), sunk by gunfire 25 miles N of Ushant (L - 25 miles N 1/2 E of; te - in 48.52N, 05.19W) (H/L/Lr/te/un)
 
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
HARRY W ADAMS, sailing vessel, 127grt, Burin (NF) for Corunna with dry codfish. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by gunfire 46 miles NW by N of Cape Villano, SW of Corunna (L - 80 miles WNW of Corunna) (H/L/un)
 
Atlantic W from Gibraltar
 
Newstead, 2,836/1894, Newcastle SS co (Forster), Newcastle, armed. Chased, escaped. Sunk 3 March 1917 (H/ms)      
 
Mediterranean
 
Cameronian, ex-German, 5,861/1914, British Government, armed. Torpedo missed. Sunk 2 June 1917 (H/ms)     
 

    
Tuesday, 26 December 1916
 
St George's Channel
 
AGNES, schooner, 99/1901, Gloucester-reg, owned & skippered by E Camm, Waterford for Gloucester with oats. Captured by UC.46 (Friedrich Moecke), sunk by bombs 15 miles SW by W of St Ann’s Head, Pembrokeshire (wi - in 51.34N, 05.30W)(H/L/Lr/un/wi)
     
Atlantic off NW Spain
 
SPINAWAY, schooner, 95/1877, Fowey-reg, E Stephens, Burgeo (NF) for Figueira with codfish. Captured by U.70 (Otto Wünsche), sunk by gunfire about 42 miles NW of Cape Villano, SW of Corunna (L – 43.23N, 10.05W)(H/L/Lr/un)
 
      
 
Wednesday, 27 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
COPSEWOOD, 599/1908, Middlesbrough-reg, Joseph Constantine, Bordeaux for Middlesbrough with pitwood. Captured by U.79 (Heinrich Jess), sunk by torpedo 34 miles S by W 1/2 W of Lizard Point, Cornwall (L - about 34 miles S by W of Lizard Light; te - in 49.19N, 05.49W) (H/L/te/un)
 
Bay of Biscay
 
AISLABY, 2,692/1891, Whitby-reg, W Coupland, Lisbon for Bilbao in ballast. Captured by U.46 (Leo Hillebrand), sunk by bombs 10 miles NE of Estaca Point, near Ferrol (L - 7 miles SE of Estaca LH; te/un - in43.51N, 07.28W); master taken prisoner (H/L/te/un)
     

 
Thursday, 28 December 1916
 
English Channel
 
PITHO, brigantine, 150/1868, Gloucester-reg, A Johns, Mr H Browning, Cardiff for Cherbourg with 237t coal, sailing at 5kts. UC.17 (Ralph Wenninger) appeared on starboard quarter at 1400, fired two shells, Pitho heaved to, U-boat came alongside, crew ordered to abandon ship. Ship’s supplies taken and explosive scuttling charges laid, sank at 1440, 30 miles SE of Start Point,Devon (wi - in 49.55N, 03.03W); crew picked up by Dutch SS Djember (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
Suffolk, 7,573 (ms – 7,083)/1902, Potter, Trinder & Gwynn/Birt, Trinder & Bethell, London, armed, sailing London for Devonport with government stores. (L - 26th) – Mined, laid by UC.16 (Egon von Werner) 6 miles S60ºE magnetic of Owers LV, reached Portsmouth (H/L/ms/un)
 
Mediterranean
 
Two armed steamships attacked by U-boat(s):
 
Oxonian, 6,306grt. Torpedo missed (ms – probably 7,807/1898, F Leyland & Co) (H/ms)

Polesley, 4,221 (ms – 4,510)/1905, Houlder Middleton. Chased, saved by own gunfire. Sunk 21 September 1918 (H/ms)     
 
Central Mediterranean
 
ORONSAY, 3,761/1900, Western SS, armed, Calcutta for Dundee with jute, manganese ore. Torpedoed by UC.22 (Heino von Heimburg), sank 48 miles SE of Malta (L - 47 miles SE of); master taken prisoner (H/L/Mn/te/un)
    

 
Friday, 29 December 1916
 
North Sea
     
LONADA, 1,286grt, Tyne for London with coal. Mined, laid by UC.6 sank 5 miles N by E 1/2 E of Shipwash LV, off Orford Ness, Suffolk (L/wi - 5 miles NE 1/2 E of, in 51.08.57N,01.24.43E); 6 crew lost (H/L/un/wi)
 

        
Saturday, 30 December 1916
 
Mediterranean
 
Malda, passenger & cargo ship, 7,884/1913, British India Steam Navigation Co, Glasgow, armed. Torpedo missed, last of four attacks in 1916. Sunk 25 August 1917 (H/ms)
 
Central Mediterranean
 
APSLEYHALL, 3,882/1911, Glasgow-reg, West Hartlepool Steam Navigation, armed, Karachi for Cardiff with wheat. Torpedoed by UC.22 (Heino von Heimburg), sank 28 miles W by N of Gozo Is, Malta (L - 40 miles W of Malta); master taken prisoner (H/L/Mn/te/un)
 
Central Atlantic
 
JEAN (2), 3-mast schooner, 215/1905, Liverpool (NS)-reg, J S Crosbie, Mr Edward Burke, Pernambuco for Lisbon withsugar. (L - 31st) - Captured by German auxiliary Geier, ex-SS Theodore captured by Möwe on 12th then converted into raider. Jean went down 60 miles E true of St Paul Rocks, off Brazil (H/L/Lr/kp)
     
 
 
Sunday, 31 December 1916
 
North Sea
 
PROTECTOR, sail pilot cutter, 200/1907, South Shields-reg, Tyne Pilotage Commission, Mr J Parker, South Shields for Tyne Pilot Station. Mined, laid by UC.31 (Otto von Schrader), sank off North Pier, Tynemouth (wi - in 55.01N, 01.22W); 19 lives lost including master (H/L/Lr/un/wi)
 
English Channel
 
City of Oran, 7,395/1915, City of Oran SS Co (Ellerman), Glasgow, armed. Gun attack, saved by own gunfire. Sunk in WW2 (H/ms)
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