Calliope
Names and owners
Year
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Name
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Owner
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1900
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Calliope
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Calliope S.S. Co. Ltd.
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Fate
The Sunderland-built steamship Calliope was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-155 some 150 miles north of Madeira on 12th July, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Seville to Newport, Monmouthshire, with a cargo of iron ore.
All twenty-seven crew were lost including 2nd Engineer Alexander Reid Simpson of West Hartlepool.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Anderson, John; Browning, James Henry; Campbell, Bryan; Clunan, Albert Dionysius; Cowdell, Henry John; Dean, Hartley; Dench, Sidney John; Fazil Muhammad Adil; Gordon, James; Greenidge, S.; Lamb, Magnus; Lambton, Ernest James; Larmont, Albert Edward William; Lawson, Niel Charles; Marks, W.; McKenna, Leonard John Seymour; McKenzie, Roderick; Olsen, John; Rasmussen, C.; Rossiter, E.; Singh, John; Svenson, C.; Thorn, George Henry; Toby, Sam; Tupman, B.; Whittingham, Alfred; Wyllie, David E.
