Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1898 | Sanna | J. Christensen | |
1915 | Vestland | A. Jensen |
Torpedoed and sunk off north-east Scotland by the German submarine U-6, on April 14th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Narvik to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore. Twenty-seven crewmen were lost. Master E. Eriksen.
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.