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Glenfoyle

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1913 Glenfoyle James Playfair
1916 Glenfoyle Great Lakes Transportation Co. Ltd.
1917 Glenfoyle Royal Navy

Fate

The decoy, or "Q-ship", Stonecrop was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-43 off south-west Ireland, on September 18th, 1917. At least eighteen of her crew were lost including Ernest Forrest of West Hartlepool.

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