Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1901 | Etonian | J. Mathias & Sons | |
1904 | Etonian | Cambrian Steam Nav. Co. Ltd. | |
1913 | Pietro | Giuseppe Ravano fu Pietro |
The Italian steamship Pietro was sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere), near Cape Palos, Spain, on December 23rd, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Genoa to Gibraltar. No lives were lost. Master G. Nisbet.
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.