Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1883 | City of Truro | Cornwall S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1897 | Aldebaran | Rederi AB Astrea |
The Swedish steamship Aldebaran was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-112, 7 miles off Wolf Rock, Cornwall, on September 27th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Marbella to Ayr with a cargo of iron ore. All 19 hands were lost.
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.