Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1890 | Rangatira | Shaw Savill and Albion Co. Ltd. | |
1910 | Graf Muraviev | J.M. Erikson | |
1911 | Brodmore | Blue Star Line |
Torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat UB-43 (von Mellenthin), 70 miles NW by N off Marsa Susa, Libya, on February 27th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Majunga, Madagascar, to the UK with a cargo of frozen meat. No lives were lost. The Master was taken prisoner.
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.