Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1906 | Llanwern | Llanwern S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1912 | Lady Ninian | Redcroft S.N. Co. Ltd. |
Sunk by the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), 106 miles off Algiers, on April 28th, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Newport News to Livorno with a cargo of oats and steel rails. One crewman was 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.