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War Pike

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1918 War Pike British Government

Fate

Scuttled at Novorossiisk, on the Russian Black Sea coast, on December 2nd, 1919, following a major explosion on board two months earlier, on October 14th.

She was to be sold to the British India S.N. Co., London and her intended name was Gozaria but before that transition took place her ammunition cargo exploded.