Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1893 | Demetrio S. Schilizzi | Foscolo Mango & Co. | |
1904 | Sainte Helene | Daher & Co. |
On a voyage from Port Talbot & used to transport heavy materials such as railway engines& rails Sainte-Helene struck a mine laid by German submarine UC-21 (Reinhold Saltzwedel) & sank 2 miles west of La Coubre in the Bay of Biscay on 1 February 1917.
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.