Hartlepool Sports & Leisure
Hartlepool Transport
A Potted History Of Hartlepool
Hartlepool Trade & Industry
Hartlepool Health & Education
Hartlepool People
Hartlepool Places
Hartlepool at War
Hartlepool Ships & Shipping
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Sarthe | Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. |
On a voyage from Port Said, Aden for Lourenco Marques, Rio de Janeiro & Buenos Aires with a cargo of bauxite & pinewood & 57 persons on board including 8 gunners Sarthe was torpedoed by German submarine U-68 (Karl Friedrich Merten) & broke in two & sank SW of the Cape of Good Hope in 34.50S/18.40E on 8 October 1940.
