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Elmville

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner
1889 Elmville R. Shadforth & Co.
1900 Elmville F. Childs & Co.
1897 Elmville R.W. Brydon
1904 Elmville E. Jenkins & Co.
1915 Eric Calvert A. Calvert
1918 Eric Calvert James Mitchell & Sons

Fate

The British steamship Eric Calvert was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-103 (Paul Hundius), 4 miles south-west of St. Anthony's Point, Cornwall, on April 22nd, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Falmouth and Boulogne with a cargo of coal. Two lives were lost.

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