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Headlands

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1892 Headlands Hardy Wilson & Co.
1894 Headlands Hardy & Co.
1912 Headlands Sefton S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-29 (Otto Weddigen), 8 miles south of the Isles of Scilly, on March 12th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Marseilles to Bristol with a mixed cargo of ore and fruit. No lives were lost.

 

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