Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1916 | City of Adelaide | Ellerman Lines Ltd. |
The British steamship City of Adelaide was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-63 (Kurt Hartwig) off the south-west coast of Sicily, on August 11th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Rangoon to Liverpool with genral cargo. Four crew were lost.
This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.