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Middleton

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1895 Middleton H. Samman & Co.
1911 Middleton Capper, Alexander

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), south-west of Crete, on November 30th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Mudros, Greece, to Alexandria with a cargo of sandbags. Master H. Battray. 4 crew were lost.

Campbell, Thomas Hugh; Howells, Henry; Kennedy, Richard Henry; Marks, James.

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