Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1903 | Estonia | AS DS Inga | |
1910 | Kalo | AS DS Atlantic | |
1912 | Kalo | AS DS Dannebrog | |
1917 | Kalo | British Government |
The Danish steamship Kalo, operated by the British Government, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-107 (Eberhard von Prittwitz und Gaffron)off Flamborough Head on 13th June, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Pauillac with a cargo of coal.
Three crew were lost including one from the Hartlepools, James Mann.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: James Leask and William Rutley.
In this section you will find information, photographs and stories relating to more than 260 Hartlepool seamen who lost their lives during during the First World War, and of the ships they served on.
To find a particular crewman, simply type his Surname in the Search Box at the top of the page.
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.
The steamship Kalo, origainally launched as the Estonia.
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