Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1905 | Archbank | Peareth S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1918 | Archbank | Sutherland S.S. Co. Ltd. |
The British steamship Archbank was torpedoed and sunk by UB-105 (Wilhelm Marschall), 240 miles off Malta on June 5th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Alexandria to Malta with naval stores.
One crewman was lost, Sunderland-born Fireman Herbert Reah.
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.