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Blackfriargate

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1906 Blackfriargate Gate S.S. Co. Ltd.
1918 Orfordness English S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

The steamship Orfordness was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-60, off Newquay on July 20th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Rouen to Barry in ballast.

Two crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Norman Mingo Marston and Thomas Stanfold William Fisher of Hull.

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