| L. H. Carl SS | [Tony Allen:]L. H. Carl, 1,916grt, defensively armed, 20 July 1917, 14 miles W ½ S from Portland Bill, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost. | |
| L-24 HMS | Surface 891 tons Submerged 1.080 tons; Length: 70,4 m; Beam: 7.2 m; Draft: 4 m; Two Vickers diesel engines. 2400 bhp. Two electric motors 1600 shp Driving Two shafts; Max surface speed. 17 kts Submerged. 10.5 kts; Range. 3800 nm; Endurance 24 days; Max dive depth 61 m; Complement 34; Armament: 4x21” bow tubes, 2x18” beam tubes, 12 torpedoes, 1x4” gun, 16 mines.This submarine was lost in an accidental collision with the R class battleship HMS Revenge off Portland on the south coast of England, with the loss of all hands. Her commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander P L Eddis RN. This was during an exercise when she was attempting to pass between Resolution and the ship preceeding her in line. | |
| La Negra SS | [Tony Allen:]La Negra SS. Built in 1911, owned at time of loss by the British & Argentine Steam Navigation Co. London. She was sailing from Sierra Leone on 22nd August 1917; in convoy for Spithead, when she was torpedoed by UC-50 in the stern. She lost her port propellor and rudder. After further torpedoes hit the ship forward on starboard, she sank. | |
| La Place | [Tony Allen:]La Place was 1430 tons. Dimensions: 93x11.5x4.3 metres. | |
| Lab | [Tony Allen:]Lab. Built in Oslo 1912. Departed Southampton in ballast in the afternoon of November 17th 1942 in Convoy PW-250 bound for Swansea for orders. They proceeded to Corfe Roads, then continued towards Swansea at 10:30 a.m. on the 18th. Attacked at about 03:10 on November 19th 1942 by S-116, one of a group of 6 E-boats of the 5th S-Flottille under kapitänleutnant Klug, '5 miles south of Eddystone Lighthouse on a course West-half-North' according to the captain's statements at the subsequent hearings. In addition to Lab an escort trawler (Ullswater) and 2 other merchant vessels were sunk (the British Yewforest and Birgitte). Lab was possibly hit by two torpedoes, the first of which struck on the port quarter, the resulting explosion blowing away the stern and killing 3 men there. The captain felt she was struck a second time 'somewhere in the bunkers'. The survivors were unable to launch the starboard lifeboat, but they got off in the port boat and rowed away from the ship which sank by the stern a few minutes later. They rowed and sailed towards the Eddystone Light and after having passed the Lighthouse at around 09:00 they were picked up by a British minesweeper which towed them to Plymouth, arriving at 11:30 a.m. | |
| Labous Mor | French trawler; 9m. Disappeared on 21st December 1991 without any distress call in bad weather. | |
| Labrador | [Tony Allen:]Labrador was 2998 tons ans 399.3 feet in length. | |
| Lady Ann SS | [Tony Allen:]Lady Ann was a 1.016grt British Merchant ship. On the 16th February 1917 when 3 miles E by S from Scarborough she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 11 lives lost including Master. | |
| Lady Cairns | [Tony Allen:]Lady Cairns was an Iron ship of 1.274 tons. She was built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast, 1869 and owned by the British Shipowners Co. Ltd. of Liverpool until 1881, then sold to Martin of Dublin. Dimensions 216.4x35.4x22.5 feet. Collided in fog, with the barque Mona off Queenstown, Ireland when bound for Timaru, New Zealand. She heeled over and capsized within minutes, taking down her entire crew of twenty-two. | |
| Lady Charlotte | Collier of 3.593 tons, 348.7 ftx50.1 ft x23.1 ft. Sunk: 1917, Ran ashore in North side PorthHellich bay, follow gulley. | |
| Lady Isabella | [Tony Allen:]Lady Isabella was 1396 tons and 255.7 feet in length. | |
| Lady Meath SS | [HSAC:]1.597 ton steamer. 350ftx42ft. British and Irish Line cattle-carrier. Dublin for Birkenhead via Holyhead RN inspection control point. Cargo: Irish cattle and sheep. Sunk: 16 August 1940, by first acoustic mine dropped in shipping lanes by German bomber. Explosion during RN inspection. All 20 crew and eight drovers saved. Inspection craft HMS Manx Lad sunk in same explosion. | |
| Lady of The Isles RMS | [Tony Allen:] Royal Mail Steamship | |
| Lady Olive | [Mark Page:] It was a British Q ship sunk in WW1 after sustaining damage from UC-18 which it had earlier sunk. | |
| Lady Ruthven | LADY RUTHVEN, 1.669 tons, built at Greenock 1875 Picture available at the state library of Victoria cite as; Brodie collection, La Trobe picture collection no-H99.220/2929 PCV LTAF 818, vol 7 p49. | |
| Ladywood SS | [Tony Allen:]Ladywood was a 2.314grt British Merchant ship. On the 1st May 1917 when 15 miles SW from Wolf Rock, English Channel she was captured by submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Laertes | [Tony Allen:]Laertes, defensively armed merchantman. Torpedoed 1.25 miles SSW from Prawle Point, Devon. 14 lives lost. | |
| Laforey HMS | Laforey was a destroyer of the ‘L’ class; Displacement: 980 tons; Length 269 feet; Beam 28 feet; Draught 10 feet; 29 Knots. Built at Fairfield’s, Govan, Clyde. Armament: 3x4-ins: 1x2 pdr 4x21-ins TT. Chronology: 1913 22 August launched;1914 March, Commissioned - 3rd Destroyer Flotilla - Grand Fleet; 28 August, took part in battle of Heligoland Bight 1915 24 January, took part in battle of Dogger Bank May, in action sinking 2 German torpedo boats June - December, transferred to Mediterranean, Dardanelles operations ;Evacuation from ‘W’ Beach. 1916-17 Returned to Portsmouth - Atlantic/Channel patrols; 1917 25 Mar, sunk by British mine in Channel. | |
| Laird | [Tony Allen:]Laird; 313 tons; 142x22 ft; Built in 1943 as a Collier. Requisioned by MOWT. In 1947 she was renamed MONKTON COMBE, and was purchased by A.L.Duggan & Co, Bristol. In 1950 she was renamed HALRONELL and purchased J.Tyrrell, Bristol. In 1954 she was purchased by J.Tyrrell, Eire. On 22nd October 1961, she sank near Rosslare Ireland, after striking rock. | |
| Lairdselm | [Tony Allen:]Lairdselm was 280 tons and 195.2 feet in length. | |
| Lake Edon | [Tony Allen:]Lake Edon sank off Newquay, Cornwall. | |
| Lake Owen | [Tony Allen:]Sank off Newquay, Cornwall. | |
| Lakeland | [Tony Allen:]Lakeland; 7.015 tons; 431 x56x19 ft; Built in 1942. She was requisioned by MOWT. On the 11th March 1943 she was torpedoed and sunk by U-190 at 59°00N 15°00W. | |
| Lampada SS | [Tony Allen:]Lampada, 2,220grt, defensively-armed, 8 December 1917, 3 miles North from Whitby, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 5 lives lost. | |
| Lancaster | MK3 from50 squadron. Position: Normans Bay Sunk: 9th/10th (night time) July 1943 returning from a bombing raid in Germany. | |
| Lancastria HMT | The Cunard /White Star passenger liner Lancastria, the former Tyrrhenia (16.243 tons) is bombed and sunk off St. Nazaire, France. While lying at anchor in the Charpentier Roads, five enemy KG.30 Dornier Do17 planes dive bombed the ship which sank in twenty minutes taking the lives of nearly 3,000 troops and over 1,000 civilians. The Lancastria had been converted into a troopship and set sail from Liverpool on June 14th. to assist in the evacuation of British troops and refugees from France (Operation Aerial). Her captain, Rudolf Sharpe, took on board as many troops and refugees as possible. She was about to sail to England after loading on board soldiers and RAF personnel of the British Expeditionary Force, plus about a thousand of civilian refugees. One bomb exploded in the Number 2 hold where around 800 RAF personnel had been placed. About 1.400 tons of fuel oil spilled from the stricken vessel as the Dornier's dropped incendiaries in an attempt to set the oil on fire. The 2,477 survivors, including her captain, were picked up by HMS Havelock and other ships. The bomb which actually sank the Lancastria went straight down the funnel. The loss of the Lancastria was the fourth largest maritime disaster of the war. Captain Rudolf Sharpe later lost his life when the ship he commanded, the Laconia, was sunk. Under the Official Secrets Act, the report on the Lancastria cannot be published until the year 2040. If it is proved that Captain Sharpe ignored the Ministry of Defence instructions not to exceed the maximum loading capacity of 3000 persons, grounds for compensation claims could be enormous. | |
| Lancer II | Lancer II was an Admiralty trawler of 275 tons which was heading for Newhaven on 18 July, 1918, when she was rammed by HM Yacht Vagrant off the Brighton Light Vessel. Vagrant took Lancer in tow but she sank soon after at 50 44.17N; 00 01.15E in 21m. (from Divernet) | |
| Landonia SS | [Tony Allen:]Landonia was 2,504grt and a defensively-armed British merchantship. On the 21 April 1918, 27 miles N by W ½ W from Strumble Head, Wales she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 21 lives lost. Master was taken prisoner. | |
| Landrail HMS | [Michael Tolhuisen:] HMS Landrail, in the 19th century, Tower Bridge was built in London, HMS Landrail was one of the first ships to be given the privilege of passing through the bridge. Laforey Class Destroyer HMS Landrail, Launched 7th February 1914. Served with the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla on completion and transferred to escort duties after 1917. The ship was damaged after colliding with HMS Undaunted in August 1915. Sold for breaking in December 1921. ''HMS Landrail'' was a torpedo gunboat and was sunk while under tow after being used for target practice. The hull had been filled | |
| Lanfranc HMHS | [Tony Allen:] Lanfranc HMS. Built: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Dundee; Dimensions: 418.5 x 52.3 x 27.2 feet; Tonnage: Gross: 6287 Net: 3662; Propulsion: Twin screw, triple expansion steam engine of 850 nhp, 12 kts by builder; Type: Passenger/Cargo Liner; Launched: 18/10/1906 as Lanfranc at the cost of £122,000; Maiden voyage: 18/02/1907; Commissioned: 6/10/1915 as a hospital ship HMHS Lanfranc with accommodation for 403 wounded; 17/04/1917 bound for Southampton by the German submarine UB-40. 17 British and 17 German patients were lost. Like many of her sisters her commercial trading life was foreshortened by the outbreak of WWI, when she was commissioned as a hospital ship HMHS Lanfranc. Capable of carrying 403 wounded from the battlefields of Northern France back to England. On the 17th April 1917 at 19:30 hrs while bound for Southampton she she was torpedoed by the German Submarine UB-40, some 4 miles northeast of Le Havre. At the time she had 387 patients of which 167 were German POWS. Of these 326 were cot patients. Some 570 survivors were picked up by the destroyers HMS Badger and HMS Jackal aided by HMS P 47 and the French patrol boat Roitelet, and taken to Portsmouth. The Booth Line ran passenger services from the United Kingdom right up to Manaus - 1,000 miles up the Amazon. Founded in the 1860s, they took over the Red Cross Line in 1901 and the Iquitos Steam Ship Company in 1911. In 1946 the Booth Line was sold to the Vestey Group of companies and in 1975 all the group's ships were pooled under Blue Star Ship Management Ltd and the Booth Line ceased to exist as a separate entity. | |
| Langston Grange SS | [Tony Allen:]Langston Grange SS sank in 1909, hitting Bell Rock. She weight 5.852 tons, was 420 feet long and 54 feet wide. August 5th 1909. Langton Grange. (LONDON). (BT BELFAST 1896). Steamship.5.852 tons. 4 masted. 420'x 54'ft. North Bishop.(Submerged Bell Rock). 51.54.14.N. 5.22.35.W. Clyde to Newport in ballast. | |
| Lanoma | [Tony Allen:]Lanoma, Iron barque, 700 tons. Built 1876. Captain Whittington. From Launceston, Cornwall to London with wool and wheat, wrecked on Chesil Beach, Bill of Portland, England, 8 March 1888. Twelve lives lost including the master; only six of the crew survived. | |
| Lanthorn | [Tony Allen:]Lanthorn, 2,299grt, 22 May 1917, 3 miles East from Whitby, captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Larchmore SS | Larchmore SS. Built in 1912 for the Johnstone Line. Merchant ship; 4.355 tons. Sunk by gunfire from a submarine on 03/07/1915. | |
| Lars Magnus Trozelli | [Tony Allen:]Lars Magnus Trozelli was a Swedish Steam Freighter built in 1920. She was on route from NORRKOPING and COPENHAGEN for BLYTH in ballast when she was torpedoed. 7 crew were lost. | |
| lash-bak1 | [Aad Kleijn:] Deze bak is als lading op 27-10-74 van het M.S. Bilderdijk van boord geslagen. De maten van deze bak: L= 19m B=9.5m H=4.6m. [Wrecksite] previously called ?52°05 400N-03°44 433E | |
| lash-bak2 | [Aad Kleijn:] Deze bak is als lading op 27-10-74 van het M.S. Bilderdijk van boord geslagen. De maten van deze bak: L= 19m B=9.5m H=4.6m. [Wrecksite] Previously called ?52°05 463N-03°42 812E | |
| Lassoo HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Lassoo, British, Laforey class Destroyer. Mined in the North Sea. | |
| Latonia SS | [Tony Allen:]Latonia SS. Built 1893. ex- Warrigal, 1906 purchased from Blue Anchor Line,1907 to Cairn Line, 1908 sunk in collision with s/s JAPANIC at the wolf Rock Light,in English Channel as the LATONA SS. Thomson Line. On route from Montreal to London. 0 lives lost. | |
| Laura SS | [Other Source:] Built in 1918 and initially named ''Warstorm'' the Laura came into collision with the British steamer ''Lorenzo''. [Zeevissen:] Cargo in juli 1937!! Gezonken. [Other Source:] Stoomschip van 3.202 Brutoton, gebouwd in 1918 bij Wallace Shipyards Ltd., Vancouver, B.C., als WAR STORM voor The Shipping Controller. Afmetingen: 90,9 mx13,6 mx7,5 m. – 303 nhp – triple-expansion machines. In 1919 verkocht aan Vincenzo de Luca, Napels, Italie en nadien aan Gulf Stoomboot Mij (De Poorter), Nederland. In de nacht van 12 op 13 december 1924 gezonken na aanvaring met het Britse ss. LORENZO (Ellerman Bucknell S.S.C., 6.009 T, 1915) op 1 mijl SE van het vuurschip WEST-HINDER in pos. 51°22'25''N - 02°27'41''E. (BAZ 1924) | |
| Laura SY | Sunk on 8th September 1917 by a U-boat. | |
| Laurentic SS | [Tony Allen:]Laurentic SS. Built in 1908 By Harland & Wolff, Belfast and owned by the White Star Line as a Liner. Used as a Merchanyship during the war. Measurements: 550.4x67.3x41.2 feet and was 14.892 tons. Powered: 2 x Triple expansion steam turbine engines generating 11.000 ihp giving 18 knots. She was carrying 3.211 gold ingots each weighing 40lbs. All but 22 ingots have been recovered. | |
| Lavernock SS | [Tony Allen:]Lavernock, 2,406grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship on the 17 September 1918, was torpedoed and sunk without warning 5 miles SW from Trevose Head, Cornwall. 25 lives lost including Master. | |
| Lavinia Westoll SS | [Tony Allen:]Lavinia Westoll, 3.131grt, 28 March 1916, 33 miles SE by S from Spurn Light Vessel, North Sea, mined and sunk. | |
| Lawford HMS | HMS Lawford was sunk during the invasion of France on D-Day in 1944. 37 of her crew died. The Royal Navy's explanation that a torpedo had sunk her was contradicted by a team from the ''Wreckdetectives'' from Channel 4, finding an outward piece of bended hull, suggesting the reason for her sinking was a guided missile. | |
| LCG(M)-101 | [André Ruissen:] Landing Craft Gun (Medium), was a ship that usually ran onto a beach, filled itself to stabilize and then started shooting at the enemy. On 3th November 1944, commander George A. Flamank reported the loss of his ship. When her guns seemed to be too slow, due to a technical failure, Flamank decided to retreat. But, while doing so, LCG-101 was severaly hot by gunfire. She took too much water and capsized. 2 man died in the attack. | |
| LCG-1062 | Landing Craft (Gun Support) | |
| LCG-15 | [Tony Allen:]Seventy nine people died as two landing craft coming from Holyhead sank in gale force winds on 25th April 1943, off the Pembrokeshire coast at St Ann's Head. On their journey they asked permission to enter Fishguard harbour to shelter from the storm, but were refused permission. They continuing towards Milford Haven and headed straight into the south westerly gale force winds. The craft began taking on water faster that the pumps could handle. Upon reaching St Ann's head they radioed for help. The coastguard called the Angle lifeboat but were told that it was out of commission. Six hours went by before the St David's lifeboat was eventually called out. It took them two and a half hours to reach the crafts, by which time it was dark and nothing could be done. The two craft separated and the LCG-15 sank. The HMS Rosemary was also on her way, and upon reaching the LCG-16 launched her lifeboat. The six men on board were killed trying to rescue them, as the lifeboat overturned in rough seas. The LCG-16 soon sank herself with all loss of life. The bodies were washed ashore in Freshwater Bay, some of the bodies were still warm. The people on the shore tried to resuscitate them, but failed. There were six bodies still left on the wreck and the site since has been classed as a war grave. The design of the vessel was said to be at fault and was changed after the accident, the original design went missing. | |
| LCG-16 | [Tony Allen:]Seventy nine people died as two landing craft coming from Holyhead sank in gale force winds on 25th April 1943, off the Pembrokeshire coast at St Ann's Head. On their journey they asked permission to enter Fishguard harbour to shelter from the storm, but were refused permission. They continuing towards Milford Haven and headed straight into the south westerly gale force winds. The craft began taking on water faster that the pumps could handle. Upon reaching St Ann's head they radioed for help. The coastguard called the Angle lifeboat but were told that it was out of commission. Six hours went by before the St David's lifeboat was eventually called out. It took them two and a half hours to reach the crafts, by which time it was dark and nothing could be done. The two craft separated and the LCG-15 sank. The HMS Rosemary was also on her way, and upon reaching the LCG-16 launched her lifeboat. The six men on board were killed trying to rescue them, as the lifeboat overturned in rough seas. The LCG-16 soon sank herself with all loss of life. The bodies were washed ashore in Freshwater Bay, some of the bodies were still warm. The people on the shore tried to resuscitate them, but failed. There were six bodies still left on the wreck and the site since has been classed as a war grave. The design of the vessel was said to be at fault and was changed after the accident, the original design went missing. | |
| LCI-219 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-219 sunk off northern France, 11 June 1944. | |
| LCI-232 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-232 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCI-416 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-416 sunk off northern France, 9 June 1944. | |
| LCI-497 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-497 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944 | |
| LCI-553 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-553 sunk off Northern France, 6 June 1944 | |
| LCI-85 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-85 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCI-91 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-91 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCI-92 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-92 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCI-93 | [Tony Allen:]USS LCI(L)-93 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCS(L)-252 | [Other Source]Fairmile B type motorlaunch boat, sunk by a mine on 25th March 1945. [André Ruissen] Het wrak van de ML466 blijkt een landingsboot te zijn nl. de LCI (S) 532. Hier kwam ik achter omdat de ML466 uitgevoerd was met dubbele besturing en de LCI met enkele besturing (zie single steering , stuurstand). Deze is ook tijdens de invasie gezonken op 1-11-1944. Voortstuwing 2-shaft Hall Scott Petrol motors, gewicht 63/110 tons, LxB 64x 7 meter [The Wrecksite]previously called the ML-466. | |
| LCS(L)-256 | [André Ruissen:] Deze landingsboot is gezonken tijdens de invasie van walcheren op 1-11-1944. De positie is 51,29.15 N 03,27.32 E (ed 50) hier komt het bronzen roer vandaan en de dekpomp. Voortstuwing 2-shaft Hall Scott Petrol motors, gewicht 63/110 tons LXB 64x7 meter | |
| LCT Dorset | 2.454 tons. Sunk in 1944, foundered. | |
| LCT Isle of Wight | Tank landing craft . | |
| LCT-147 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-147 sunk off northern France, June 1944 | |
| LCT-197 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-197 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-200 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-200 sunk off northern France, 6th June 1944. | |
| LCT-244 | LCT(5)-244 sunk off northern France, 8th June 1944 during operation NEPTUNE. | |
| LCT-25 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-25 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-27 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-27 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-293 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-293 sunk in English Channel, 11 October 1944. | |
| LCT-30 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-30 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-305 | LCT(5)-305 sunk 6th June 1944 during operation NEPTUNE, northern France. | |
| LCT-332 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-332 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-362 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-362 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-413 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-413 sunk off northern France, 6th June 1944. | |
| LCT-458 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-458 sunk off northern France, 7 June 1944. | |
| LCT-486 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-486 sunk off northern France, 7 June 1944. | |
| LCT-496 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(5)-496 sunk in the English Channel, 2 October 1943 | |
| LCT-524 | Sunk in June 1944 during operation NEPTUNE. | |
| LCT-548 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-548 sunk at Portsmouth, England, October 1944. | |
| LCT-555 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-555 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-572 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-572 sunk off northern France, June 1944. | |
| LCT-593 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-593 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944 | |
| LCT-597 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-597 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-612 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-612 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-703 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-703 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944 | |
| LCT-705 | Landingsvaartuig tijdens WO II vergaan | |
| LCT-713 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-713 sunk off northern France, 6th June 1944. | |
| LCT-714 | [Tony Allen:]LCT(6)-714 sunk off northern France, 6th June 1944 | |
| LCT-777 | LCT(6)-777 sunk off northern France, 6 June 1944. | |
| LCT-809 | Landing Craft (Tank), 187ftx39ftx4ft and 611 tons. | |
| LCTR | Landing Craft (Tank) | |
| LCTR-457 | [Mark Gray] LCT(R)457 started life as LCT(3)457 before conversion. LCT (3): 457 Built: 1941-1942. Builders:Redpath Brown (Meadowside). Displacement: 350/640 tons. Dimensions: 175(pp) Length 190ft (oa)xbeam 31ftxdraught 3ft(Light) 7ft (Loaded). Machinery: 2-shaft Davy Paxman diesel motors. B.H.P. 920 at 10 knots Armament: 2x pdr or 2x20mm guns. Complement: 12 crew. Tanks:- 5 at 40 ton or 11 at 30 ton. Lorries:- 10 at 3 ton. Conversions from LCT(3) to LCT (R) could rapidly revert back to LCT (3). These vessels were consequently not numbered. Fitted with false decks on which 5inch rockets (180x6) were electronically fired in 24 salvoes at a fixed range of 3,500 yards saturating a beach area of 750x160 yards with a density of one rocket per 100 sq yards. Either H.E. or C.S.A. , or incendiary heads could be fitted to the rockets. The only war loss of LCT(R) was 457 in 1944. [Other Source]De LCTR (Landing Craft Tanks, Rocket type, MKIII) 457 was een Engelse omgebouwde LST. In plaats van tanks waren er raketlanceerinstallaties aan boord. Het schip had een lengte van 63 meter, een breedte van 10 meter, een waterverplaatsing van 421 ton en liep 11 knopen. Op 5 november 1944 liep het schip op een mijn toen het op weg was naar de Walcherese kust. Het is het enige in zijn soort dat verging. (andere bron) Landing Craft Tanks, Mk III, omgebouwd tot ‘Rocket Type’. 560 brutoton, gebouwd tussen 1941 en 1944. Afmetingen: 58,5 mx9,45 mx1,65 m. Machines: 2-shaft Paxman diesels (10,5 kn.). Bewapening: twee 2pdr. pompom’s, 2 –20 mm. Bij de geconverteerde versie werd een vals dek en valse opbouw geconstrueerd om ondersteuning te bieden aan de 1.044 raketten van 5 inch, die elektrisch werden afgevuurd in salvo’s vanaf een vaste afstand van 3 km. Als enige LCT(R) vergaan tijdens raid op Walcheren, wellicht door mijn ontploffing. | |
| Leda SS | SS Leda (1898-1917) from the Koninlijke StoomvaartMaatschappij KNSM, On 6th December 1917, LEDA was on her way from Methil (Scotland) to Amsterdam, when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-49. | |
| Lee S. Overmann | Sank off Normandy. | |
| Leeds City SS | [Tony Allen:]Leeds City was a 4,298grt defensively-armed Merchant Steamer. On the 6 May 1918 when 5 miles E by S ½ S from Skulmartin Light Vessel off Stranraer, Scotland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Leerdam SS | ss Leerdam (1881) werf: eigenaar: N.S.M. Rotterdam Holland Amerika Lijn. Korte historie: In 1882 overgenomen van de Ned. Stoomboot Maatschappij. 16-12-1889 gezonken op weg naar Buenos Aires, na aanvaring met het Engelse s.s. 'Gaw Quansia' alias ''Gaw Quan Sia'' alias ''Qaw Quan Sin'' of nog ''Gaw Guan Sia'' op 30 mijl ten N van lichtschip Noord Hinder gezonken. Bouwjaar/tonnage: 1881/2796 L 97.83m; 2cyl.NSM 1500pk, 10km/u | |
| Leersum SS | [Didier De Waele:] Leersum SS; 1898; cargo by Sunderland Shipbuilding Cpy, Sunderland for NV Stoomvaart Mij Oostzee, Amsterdam; 1.455 gross tons; 906 net tons; 73,15x11,3x6,1m; 3 cyl steamengines; 162hp; 8knots; On December 26th 1914, Leersum SS, captain G. Stekelenburg, was en route from Rotterdam to Newcaste-on-Tyne, when she struck a mine, near to Scarborough. 10 people died. | |
| Leicester SS | [Tony Allen:]Leicester, 1,001grt, 12 February 1916, 2½ miles SE by E from Folkestone Pier, mined and sunk, 17 lives lost. | |
| Leichardt | [Tony Allen:]Leichardt was a tea clipper, 634 tons. Built 1853. Ran in the China tea trade until the mid eighteen- sixties. In October 1868 when outward bound for New Zealand she was run down and sunk off Gravesend by SS North Star. No loss of life. | |
| Leinster | [Tony Allen:]Leinster was sunk during WWI. | |
| Leliegracht | [Other Source:]Leliegracht, dutch cargoship, motor 940 HP, built in 1967, length 60 meter, 1113 ton. Sunk with 10 people on board (6 were saved) on 23rd sept. 1973. Cause: shifting cargo in storm [Joop Broekstra:] Gezonken 28/09/1973. Reden zinken: vermoedelijk verlies van stabiliteit op een golftop. [Jan Kiel:] More info on: http://www.digischool.nl/ | |
| Lena Luckenbach | [Tony Allen:]Lena Luckenbach; Sank off Normandy. | |
| Lennox SS | [Tony Allen:]Lennox SS was built in 1895 by Barclay Curle & Cpy, she grossed 3.667 tons and measured 107,44x13,46x7,72 metres and was powered by a three cylinder triple expansion engine. Vessel was being chased by a U boat and ran onto the rocks. | |
| Leo Dawson SS | [Tony Allen:]Leo Dawson was a British Steam Merchantship that was built in 1916. She was formerly called the ROSEDEN in 1936. The vessel was owned by DAWSON, F L. BEVERLEY STEAMSHIP CO LTD. She was on route carrying iro ore from NARVIK 29 JAN 40 for IMMINGHAM when she was torpedoed by U-37. All 35 crew were lost. | |
| Leo SS | [Tony Allen:]Leo SS. Delivered in Dec.-1924 from Ateliers & Chantiers de la Seine Maritime, Worms & Cie, Le Trait (30) as Leo to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Bergen for use in service to Hamburg. 231.4' x 34.2' x 21.7', Triple exp. 980 ihp, 11 knots. Leo departed Alexandra Dock, Hull on March 11-1941 bound for Reykjavik with a cargo of about 300 tons ice and 7000 empty fish crates. She also had about 140 tons of reserve bunker coal in the tween deck. She was equipped with a Lewis gun, placed on the roof of the cabin aft. A kite had been delivered while at Hull, but it had not yet been fitted, though the captain had made urgent requests. After the compasses had been adjusted they anchored in Hull Roads, then continued to Grimsby Roads on the 12th in order to wait for a convoy. Proceeded in convoy to Methil on March 13, arriving there the following afternoon. Due to thick fog there was no departure until March 17, but she finally departed that afternoon in convoy. As she passed Butt of Lewis on March 19, about 12 n. miles off, she left the convoy as previously instructed, so appears to have been heading for the ocean alone when she was attacked by machine gun fire and bombs from a German aircraft and sunk that day, about 75 miles northwest of Butt of Lewis. 2 or 3 bombs hit the foredeck, 1 detonating in the sea close to midships. Shortly thereafter she developed a heavy list to port, with the foredeck awash in the water, so the 21 on board abandoned ship in two lifeboats, remaining in the vicinity until they saw the after part of the ship rise up before it sank, about 15 minutes after the attack. | |
| Leon SS | French steamer of 2.451 tons, sunk in 1918 when torpedoed by UC-75. | |
| Leopoldville SS | Leopoldville SS. Until may 1940, the ship, 11509 tons was affected to transit between Antwerpen and Belgian Congo. During the war, she was requisitionned to serve as a troop transport. On 24th of December 1944, 2 235 soldiers of the U.S. Army sailed from Southampton to Cherbourg. Around 6 PM, one torpedo, launched by U-486, struk the ship. Despite the ship was only five nautical miles outside of Cherbourg, the Captain (Cpt Limber) prefered to moor rather than to join the harbour. At 7 o’clock, the british destroyer H.M.S. Brilliant came alongside and rescued numerous people. All together, the rough winter sea and nightfall, justifiy the great loss of human lifes. At 8.30 PM, when the Leopoldville went down by the stern on the bottom of the Channel, 808 men, mostly soldiers, perished in the tragedy. | |
| Lero SS | [Tony Allen:]The British steamship Lero stranded on the Maasvlakte on January 24th 1891. Because the ship was filling up with water, the crew was forced to abandon ship and was picked up by the tugboat ""Zuid-Holland"". The Lero had the holds filled with mixed cargo. The load were barrels of tobacco, dried apples, resin, meal, cotton, grain, meat, margarine and fat. | |
| Leros SS | [Tony Allen:] Leros SS, ran aground in dense fog on the northern coast of Alderney. Was carrying a cargo of 240 tons of Singer sewing machines which were looted by the islanders. In protest Singer stopped production of the model so there were no spare parts. | |
| Les Deux Amis | The tragic loss of the Royal George in August 1782 with the terrible loss of life was a body blow for the Navy, then during the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815) over 13,000 seamen died in either shipwreck or accidents, an appalling figure, which was double those killed as a result of enemy action, and during this period no less than 101 Naval vessels were destroyed by accidental causes. For instance during 1799 no less than 19 Naval ships were lost by either wrecking or fire. Of these the greatest loss without doubt was that of the 90-gun Impregnable, which was escorting a convoy of merchant ships back from Lisbon. As the vessel was making its final approach to Portsmouth, it went aground near the entrance to Langstone harbour. Earlier in the year the small captured sloop Les Deux Amis was wrecked just off the Isle of Wight. Fortunately in both instances there was no loss of life. | |
| Les Trois Freres | French yawl. | |
| Lethe | [Tony Allen:]Lethe; 369 tons; 152x23 ft; Built in 1891 as the BLACKROCK, for Tedcastle, McCormick & Co. Ltd. Dublin, Ireland. In 1913 she was renamed ELETH and was purchased Wm.Thomas & Sons, Liverpool. In 1941 she was renamed EMPIRE LETHE and requisioned by MOWT. In 1946 she was renamed ELETH and transferred to Wm.Thomas & Sons, Liverpool. On the 1st February 1951 her cargo shifted and she capsized and sank near Dundalk. | |
| Leven | [Tony Allen:]Leven, dredger, 775grt, 15 February 1917, ¾ mile S by E ½ E from Newhaven Breakwater, mined and sunk. | |
| Liana SS | [Tony Allen:]Liana was a Swedish Steam Freighter built in 1898 and she was 1664 tons. When on route carrying coal from BLYTH for HALMSTAD she was torpedoed by U-14 and sunk. 10 crew were lost. She sank 24 miles North of KINNAIRD HEAD, Scotland. | |
| Libertas | Coaster of 499 tons, with a cargo of slags, sunk on 6th June 1974 in ''de Ketel'' in the East Scheld. | |
| Libourne SS | [Tony Allen:]Libourne, 1,219grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship. Sunk 29 September 1918, 10 miles South from the Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost. | |
| Lightfoot | [Tony Allen:]Lightfoot, Built in 1916 for Wandsworth & Wimbleton for the Rpsom Gas Co. A Coal carrying steamship of 1875 ton, Dimensions: 268x37.9x17.6 feet. Powered: Triple expansion engine 199 nhp. Vessel was in ballast whilst on a voyage from London to Barry and was torpedoed by a German submarine 2 miles from the Owers Light Vessel in the English Channel. | |
| Lightning HMS | HMS Lighting was returning from a sweep with Force Q in the Mediterranean, when she was attacked by a German S-boote. A torpedo struck her forward which severely damaged the bows. Her CO, Commander H G Walters, gave the order to stop so as to prevent further damage to the bows. As she slowed she was struck by a second torpedo which broke her in two. her bow and stern sections remained vertical in the water for a while before sinking. 46 men were lost and 170 survived. Her position was recorded as 37'53N-69'50E, off Bizerta, Mediterranean. | |
| Lightning HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Lightning, British, '27-knotter' class Destroyer Mined in the English Channel. Struck a mine off Kentish Knock Light Vessel and sank. Armament: 1 x 12 lbder 5x6 lbders's 2 x torpedo tubes. | |
| Lily SS | [Tony Allen:]Lily was a Danish Steam Freighter built in 1920. She was on route from KIRKWELL 25th April 1940 for PRESTON with a cargo of china clay when she was torpedoed by U-13. | |
| Limbourne HMS | H.M.S.Limbourne was very active in her one year of existence. Even while working up in November 1942 she escorted the battleship H.M.S.Howe to the Mediterranean and returned to the UK as escort for H.M.S.Duke of York and H.M.S.Victorious. She then joined the 15th Destroyer Flotilla based at Devonport where she was flotilla leader for most of the remaining part of her career. In January and February 1943 she was to be found escorting convoys to Gibraltar and North Africa. She entered Casablanca with the US Navy when they took the port during the North African landings, working to help clear the scuttled ships left behind. Following repairs in Portsmouth Dockyard to replace a propeller, she escorted the French battleship Le Courbet to the Clyde. The next five months were spent on sweeps off the French coast where she saw action. She was also involved in protecting light forces and anti-submarine patrols in the Bay of Biscay. During one of these patrols north of Morlaix she received slight damage in action with enemy destroyers. She was eventually lost on 23rd October 1943, the eve of the anniversary of her commissioning, off the Sept Isles during Operation Tunnel. She was torpedoed by the German destroyer T-22. The torpedo hit the forward magazine; the resulting explosion blew away all the fore-end structure below the waterline, from just forward of the boiler rooms and forecastle deck forward of the bridge. Despite this enormous damage, great efforts were made to save the ship but attempts under her own steam or in tow were unsuccessful. At daylight the remaining structure that was still afloat had to be sunk by torpedoes from our own forces to prevent it falling into enemy hands. From a ships company of 125, a total of 40 lives were lost; sadly none of the bodies were ever recovered. | |
| Limelight | [Tony Allen:]Limelight was 143 tons and 89 feeet in length. | |
| Linaria SS | [Tony Allen:]Linaria was a 3,081grt, Merchantship. On the 26 December 1914 when 2 ½ miles NNE from Filey, N. Yorkshire she was mined and sunk. | |
| Lincairn SS | [Tony Allen:]Lincairn, 3.638grt, 27 May 1916, 8 miles N by E from Shipwash, mined and sunk. | |
| Lincoln SS | Early Steam Ship. Sunk: May 1886 after striking the Runnel Stone in thick fog. | |
| Lindisfarne ss | [Martien Slaats:]Lindisfarne ss. British steam cargo 999 ton getorpedeerd door S-63 12-12-1942 vaarde in convoy:tn.889 16 doden | |
| Lindisfarne SS | [Martien Slaats:] Lindisfarne SS British steamcargo gebouwd in 1870 1151 ton 244-7x30-6x17-5 n.h.p.compound enginis op weg van methil naar rotterdam cargo.coal | |
| Link 1 | [Tony Allen:]Link 1, Roll on -Roll Ferry that became disabled by an engine room fire. Vessel burned for 5 days helped by her cargo of wood and paper rolls. Eventually there was a large explosion that sent her to the seabed. | |
| Linn O-Dee SS | Ran aground at La Lague on Burhou Island. Broken up in shallow water. | |
| Lisbon SS | [Tony Allen:] Lisbon SS, 1,203grt, defensively-armed, 30 May 1917, 5 miles S from Royal Sovereign Light Vessel, English Channel. Mined and sunk, 1 life lost. On route from Newhaven to Boulogne. | |
| Lisette SS | [Tony Allen:]Lisette was a 895grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 13 March 1918 when 8 miles NE by N from Shipwash Light Vessel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 1 life lost. | |
| Lister SS | [Tony Allen:]Lister was a Swedish Steam Freighter built in 1928. She was route from SKUTEKAR for ANTWERP carrying wood when she was torpedoed by U-59. | |
| Listrac | Steel coaster of 778 tons, shelled in 1940. | |
| Liverpool | Barque with 4 masts, ran aground Alderney (the English channel). Liverpool was the largest sailing ship in the world at the time, ran aground on rocks next to Fort Houmet Herbé in fog. The cargo was salvaged then wreck broke up. Solidified barrels of cement and girders are the only recognisable remains in shallow dangerous waters. | |
| Lizzonia | [Diving Sussex:]Lizzonia; 410 ton; 142ft; British motor vessel, sunk on 16th March 1961 in collision with the Arctic Ocean. [Tony Allen:]The Lizzonia was originally laid down as the Farouche 410 tons. Dimensions 142x27 in 1944 and built as a Coaster. She was requisioned as MOWT. In 1946 she was renamed LIZZONIA and purchased by J.Wharton (Shipping) Ltd. On the 16th March 1961 she sank after collision in fog with m/v ARCTIC OCEAN near Varne Lightship. | |
| Lizzy Ellen | Sunk by a submarine on 28/06/1917 | |
| Llama SS | [Tony Allen:]The 3.189 ton American Tanker Llama, on route to Copenhagen, was lost on the Skea Skerries Reef on the 31/10/1915 while attempting to enter Kirkwall to undergo contraband control. She sank, when slipping off the reef. | |
| Llanarth SS | [Tony Allen:]Llanarth was built in 1929 and owned by RADCLIFFE & CO, EVAN THOMAS. PICTON STEAMSHIP CO LTD. She was on route from MELBOURNE for LEITH and ABERDEEN carrying a cargo of 7980 tons of Flour when she was torpedoed by U-30 and sunk. The 35 crew were saved. | |
| Llandoverly Castle | [Tony Allen:]Llandoverly Castle; 500'x63'. Built by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow and launched September 1913.She was commissioned as a hospital ship in 1916 for the transfer of sick and wounded Canadians from Europe to Nova Scotia. Around 9:30 pm 27th June, the Llandoverly Castle was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean, about one hundred and sixteen miles south-west of Fastnet (Ireland), by a torpedo from U-86. She was clearly identifiable since all lights were burning, with the large Red Cross signal prominently displayed amidships. This was one of the worst atrocities at sea during WWI. The U-boat captain rammed the lifeboats attempting to destroy their occupants in order to kill all witnesses. Only one lifeboat escaped saving 24 lives, including the Captain who had been brutalized after being questioned on board the German sub. In all there were 248 victims, all non-combatants, including 14 nursing sisters, medics and crew. | |
| Llanfair SS | [Tony Allen:]Llanfair was a British cargo steamer built in 1928. She was owned by RADCLIFFE & CO, EVAN THOMAS. WIMBORNE STEAMSHIP CO LTD and was on route from MACKAY and FREETOWN for AVONMOUTH carrying 7800 tons of sugar when she was torpedoed by U-38 and sunk. From a crew of 32, 3 were lost. | |
| Llanishen | [Tony Allen:]Llanishen; On 23rd August 1940 she was bombed & sunk SE of Wick, Scotland in posn. 58°17N by 2°27W | |
| Loanda SS | Built: 1891; 2.702 tons, 328ft, 253 hp Triple-expansion engine Steamer. She was sunk while travelling from Hamburg to South Africa in 1908 after hitting a Russian steamer Junona. Cargo: Hundreds of cases of gin, rum, champagne and barrels of gunpowder. Thousands of newly minted shillings presumed aboard but not borne out by manifest. | |
| Loch Alsh HMS | Sunk by german aircraft, was requisitioned by admiralty for use as a minesweeper. | |
| Loch Earn | [Tony Allen:]Loch Earn, Iron ship, 1200 tons. Built at Glasgow, 1869. Dimensions 226.2x35.8x21.5 ft. Captain Robertson. Under full sail for Australia, collided with the French Atlantic mail steamer Ville du Havre on 22th November 1873 at the entrance to the English Channel. The Ville du Havre was carrying 313 passengers and was one week out from New York for Le Havre. Under the law of the sea, steam was expected to give way to sail but instead the steamer continued on course, at about 9 knots, and swung across the Loch Earn’s bows. The sharp bow of the sailing ship cut into the steamer’s plating, stove in her side for a distance of thirty feet by twelve feet almost opposite the engines, and she sank within fifteen minutes drowning two hundred and twenty-six of her complement. The eighty-seven survivors (twenty-six passengers, sixty-one crew) were picked up by the damaged Loch Earn and later transferred to the American vessel Tremountain, and landed at Cardiff. On 28 November 1873, the Loch Earn, with its bow smashed in, commenced to sink as the bulkheads gave way, so was abandoned by and her crew without incident. They were eventually picked up by the British Queen and landed at Plymouth on 7 December. | |
| Loch Maddy SS | [Tony Allen:]Loch Maddy SS, a 4.996 ton steamship was on route from VANCOUVER and VICTORIA B.C for LEITH when she was torpedoed to the East of Orkney by the U-57 on the 20th February 1940 but didn't sink. She was taken in tow but at 1.09 am on the 21st she received another torpedo, this time from the U-23 commanded by the famous U boat commander Otto Kretschmer. She was carrying 2000 tons of wheat, 6000 tons lumber and aircraft. 4 crew lost, total crew 39. | |
| Loch Moidart SS | [Tony Allen:]four masted iron ship built in 1881 by Barclay, Curle& co Glasgow; 87x13x7,3 meters; 2081 grt and 2000 nrt; Sunk 1890 Januari 26; Stranded at Callantsoog and capsized. On a voyage from Pisagua to Hamburg with a gargo of nitrate. | |
| Loch Shiel | [HSAC:]1.277 ton fully-rigged iron sailing ship, built 1877. 225ftx36ft. Cargo: 7000 cases of whisky, bottled beer, general. Brick ballast. Glasgow for Adelaide. Sunk: 30 January 1894, ran ashore on Thorn Island while seeking shelter from gale in Milford Haven. Heroic rescue of all 33 aboard by Angle lifeboat. | |
| Loch Sunart | [Tony Allen:]Loch Sunart, Iron ship, 1.231 tons. Built 1878. Dimensions 228.5x34.7x21.7 ft. Captain G. Weir. From Glasgow to Melbourne, ashore near Belfast, Ireland, 13 January 1879. Tom Pearce, the hero of the Loch Ard disaster on the Victorian coast less than a year earlier, was a member of her crew, and had again survived. | |
| Loch Torridon | [Tony Allen:]Loch Torridon, 2000 tons. Launched 1881. Dimensions 287x42x24 ft. Made many voyages on the Australia Run. Ended her days owned by Russians; In 1915 foundered near the entrance to the English Channel, possibly as a result of a German submarine attack. | |
| Lochgarry | [Tony Allen:]Lochgarry, British government transport ship, ran aground. | |
| Lochiel HMS | [Tony Allen:]Lochiel HMS was a defensively armed trawler, sunk by a mine. | |
| Lodewijk van Nassau SS | LODEWIJK VAN NASSAU; 1913; W. Hamilton & Co Port Glasgow for Koninklijke West-Indische Maildienst (K.W.I.M); number 290; sisteship Jan van Nassau, no.289; The Lodewijk Van Nassau was used for the route to the western part of South America via the Panama channel. On her final voyage, she had to pass the Street of Magelhaens, as the channel was unavailable. On 31st July 1915 she left Chili for Rotterdam with a cargo of Salpeter. On 20th April 1916, when approaching the Galloper Lightship (51.50N/01.55E), she hit a mine, laid by the UC-1. The survivors were picked up by the British steamer STARLING. 5 crew members died in the disaster. | |
| Lofoten SS | [Tony Allen:]Lofoten SS, a 942grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 3 February 1918, 7 miles SE by E from Start Point, Devon, English Channel. 17 died. | |
| Lola SS | [Tony Allen:]Lola SS. Small Belgian steamer foundered when its cargo of granite chips shifted in heavy seas. Was on route from Porthoustock to London. Sank off the Owers light in 25 metres. | |
| Lomas SS | [Tony Allen:]Lomas, 3,048grt, 30 June 1915, 65 miles W from Bishop Rock, Cornwall. Captured by submarine, sunk by torpedo, 1 life lost. | |
| Londonier SS | Belgian merchantman of 1.870 tons, torpedoed by UC-71 in 1918. | |
| Longbenton SS | [Tony Allen:]A requisitioned collier, she was on passage to Devonport from the Tyne with a cargo of coal when she was torpedoed by UC63 on 27th June 1917 at 8pm. All of the crew managed to get away safely and were picked up by the SS Hogarth. Longbenton, 924grt, 27 June 1917, 12 miles S by W from Flamborough Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Longwy SS | Longwy SS was 1.323 tons and was 282.6 feet in length. | |
| Lonsdale SS | [Tony Allen:]Lonsdale SS. On route frorm Ireland to Padstow. Low on fuel. Took on extra coal at Martin's Haven. Passing through Jack Sound steering was lost, hit Crabstones Reef. | |
| Loodsboot No.1 | Loobsboot no1, was lost when it hit a magnetic mine on 15th May 1940; Built 1040; 49,55x5,76x3,53; 1.345hp; 15,5 knots; | |
| Loodsboot No.14 SS | [Jaap Beijer:] ''attached to this mail you find a picture of the Loodsboot 14. This picture is in our family for many years. My grandfather Jacob Adrianus Beijer was one of the seaman when the Loodsboot 14 sailed into a mine, my grandfather was hurt.'' | |
| Lord Steward SS | [Tony Allen:]Lord Stewart was 1,445grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 16 September 1918, on route from Cherbourg to Barry, 6 miles E ½ N from Hope's Nose, Torquay, Devon she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by UB-104, 1 life lost. | |
| Lord Stonehaven HMS | [Tony Allen:]Lord Stonehaven. Sank during E-boat attack off Eddystone, English Channel. | |
| Lough | [Tony Allen:]Lough; 28.24 tons; 310x44x11 ft; Built in 1940 as a Collier. Requisioned by MOWT. On the 24th June 1944 she was attacked by E-Boats, beached near Folkestone. She was declared a total loss. | |
| Louis Sheid SS | [HSAC:]The Belgian steamer Louis Sheid (built as ''Ultor'') was lost in Beacon Cove at Thurlestone, South Devon. This 6.057 tons gross steamer, 418ftx55ft, built in 1920 for the Rickmers Line, was on hand when the Dutch cargo liner Tajandoen was torpedoed by U-47 in the Atlantic and stopped long enough to rescue sixty-two crew, mostly coloured men, from a sea of blazing oil in which six died. The Louis Sheid was making for Antwerp (from Buenos Aires) with a cargo of grain when she stranded in Bigbury Bay on 7 December 1939. Refloated and beached at Thurlestone she broke in two and became a total loss, but was later so heavily salvaged that today only her double bottoms remain recognisable. | |
| Louis SS | [Le Grizzly:]Louis; Français; Cargo; 704 tx; voie d'eau le 21 08 1895; | |
| Louvain SS | [Tony Allen:]Louvain was formerly called Everene and was built in 1906 and was a steam freighter. She was on route from BLYTHE for LIEPAJA when torpedoed by U-19 near the Longstone Light Vessel. I crew of the 30 was lost. | |
| Lowland SS | [Didier De Waele:]Lowland SS (ex-Noord Holland SS), NV Werf vh Rijkee & Co, Rotterdam for Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Mij; 1911; 1.006 grt; 65,98x9,98 x4,34m; Triple expansion engines; Bought by Shipping & Coal Cpy in 1932. On November 22nd 1939, Lowland SS, was sunk by a mine. 2 miles ENE from NorthEast Gunfleet Buoy, the Thames estuary. 9 of the crew died. | |
| Lowmount SS | [Tony Allen:]Lowmount, 2,070grt, 7 May 1917, 4 miles SE from Nab Light Vessel, mined and sunk, 5 lives lost. Dimensions:282x38 feet. | |
| Loyalty HMS | On 22nd August 1944, minesweeper Loyalty HMS was torpedoed and sunk by U-480. | |
| LST-? | Sunk in June 1944 by a mine. | |
| LST-364 HMS | [Aad Kleijn:] LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship. Te water gelaten in Oktober 1942 te Amerika. In dienst gesteld op 7-12-1942 en dezelfde dag getransporteerd naar Engeland. In Engeland is zij in dienst gesteld als de HMS LST-364. Lengte 100m. breedte 17m. snelheid 12 knopen. Op 22 februari 1944 is zij getorpedeerd en tot zinken gebracht door een kleine u-boot, type ''Seehund'' U-5330. Het was dezelfde u-boot die ook de kabelleger Alert tot zinken bracht. | |
| LST-420 | [Other Source:]Engels landingsschip gebouwd in 1942 op de Bethlehem Faifield scheepswerf te Baltimore in de VS. Ze had een lengte van 109 meter, een breedte van 16,5 meter en een waterverplaatsing van 1625 ton. Het haalde een snelheid van 10 knopen. LST's (Landing Ship Tanks) werden spottend large slow targets genoemd omdat het gemakkelijke doelwitten waren. Op 7 november 1944 voer ze samen met de LST 405, 367, 320 en 200 van Dover naar Oostende met vrachtwagens en voorraden voor het RAF. Wegens een storm kon ze de haven van Oostende niet binnenlopen en werd koers gezet naar Small Downs in de Thamesmonding. Onderweg werd ze net achter de boeg door een Duitse mijn getroffen en brak in tweeën. 55 militairen en 75 passagiers verloren het leven. [Other Source:]Vergaan door mijnontploffing op 7 november 1944. Door de mijnontploffing waren beide delen uit elkaar gedreven. Het achterschip, verzwaard door de lading vrachtwagens is wellicht eerst gezonken, terwijl het voorschip is blijven drijven en een halve mijl verder is gezonken in positie 51°15.030 N – 02°41.800 E; niet ver van het wrak van my ALOHA De boeg werd gevonden in een stroomgeul van 14 meter diepte. Daar waren de waterdichte poorten herkenbaar waar de boeg was afgebroken. Het voorschip werd opgeruimd in 1990 door T.V.B. ‘Norma’. Over dit deel van het wrak werd aan de Britse Admiraliteit volgende (verkeerde) informatie verschaft: “Apparently steel vessel, possibly a coaster, lying upside down” (1983) en “Identified as SPERRBRECHER 143 LOLA” (1988). Het vaartuig zou volgens onzekere bronnen een 400-tal verpleegsters aan boord hebben gehad. In het erepark van de Engelse begraafplaats aan de Stuiverstraat te Oostende liggen 5 bemanningsleden van de LST-420 begraven. | |
| LST-496 | USS LST-496 sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 11 June 1944. | |
| LST-499 | [Tony Allen:]LST-499. Sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 8 June 1944. | |
| LST-507 | [HSAC:]LST-507, a 2366 ton US tank-landing ship, built 1943. 328ftx50ft. 16 Army trucks and landing craft on deck; 22 amphibious DUKWs in hold. Sunk: 28 April, 1944, when taking part in Slapton Sands ''Exercise Tiger'' practice for Normandy invasion landing on Utah Beach. Torpedoed by 40-knot German E-boats based in Cherbourg, 202 US servicemen killed. Total US casualties in Exercise Tiger: 638. | |
| LST-523 | The American LST 523 was blown in two off Ponte du Hoc in Normandy on the 19th of June 1944. I was an eye-witness. The location according to British divers is Lat.49 28 42.0 N: Long. 000 57 55.0W (Anthony Leone) | |
| LST-531 | [Tony Allen:]LST-531. Sunk by German motor torpedo boats in Lyme Bay, England, 28 April 1944. | |
| LST-80 | [Jurgen Zutterman:]Not LCT-80, but LST-80. Sunk in WWII during a sea battle | |
| LST-921 | [Tony Allen:]USS LST-921 torpedoed by German submarine U-764 off the channel entrance to Bristol, England, 14 August 1944, and struck from the Navy list, 14 October 1944. | |
| Lucent SS | [Tony Allen:] ucent was a 1.409grt British Merchant ship. On the 12th February 1917 when 20 miles E from Lizard, Cornwall she was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Lucifer | Escort ship. | |
| Luciston SS | British Steamer of 2.877 tons. Torpedoed by the German submarine UB-74 in 1917 | |
| Lucy | [HSAC:]450 ton Dutch coaster, built 1964. 168ftx28ft. 360hp oil engines. Calcium carbide, Barry from Norway. Sunk: 14 February, 1967 by hitting Cable Rock in Jack Sound, Skomer Island, then drifting with rising tide and finally sinking near North Haven in Skomer Marine Reserve. | |
| Lugano SS | [Tony Allen:]Lugano SS 3.810grt, armed cargo struc a mine and sunk 2nd October 1917, 2 miles SW from Bull Point, Rathlin. | |
| Luis SS | [HSAC:]2.484 ton British steamer, built 1916. 380ftx53ft. Armed on stern. 7.000 tons flour, oats, timber and anti-personnel artillery shells, Halifax, Nova Scotia to Portsmouth. Sunk: 12 April, 1918, when hit in port side by two torpedoes from UC-71 near St Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight, finally sinking in Sandown Bay. Four crew died. | |
| Lullington SS | [Tony Allen:]Lullington was a 2.816grt British Merchant ship. On the 8th February 1917 when 3 miles E from Royal Sovereign Light Vessel she hit a mine and sunk. | |
| Lulonga SS | 821 ton British steamer Sunk: 26th July 1940, Torpedoed by a E Boat | |
| Luminence | [Tony Allen:]Luminence; 588 tons; 190x28 feet; Sank on March 1st 1967, in rough weather and 40mph winds. The crew were rescued by helicopter with the help of Potroclus another ship diverted to help with the rescue. | |
| Luna | MS Luna (1912-1919 KNSM); Vuijk Zn Capelle a/d Ijssel. On 21st August 1919, LEDA was on voyage from Amsterdam to Lisboa, when she was sunk by a mine WSW from the East Goodwin. | |
| Luna | [Tony Allen:]The 846 ton barque Luna, sailing from Liverpool to Wellington with a general cargo, got into difficulties off Pendeen after loosing her foretop mast and headgear. After firing flares the Sennen lifeboat crew were alerted and rocket aperatus was sent to Cape Cornwall. But by this time the ship had moved behind the Brisons and disappeared, going to pieces in a matter of minutes taking all 17 of the crew with her. Items from the wreck were washed ashore along the coast consisting of soap, spirits, candles, tins of beef and other general cargo. | |
| Luna SS | [Tony Allen:]Luna. Built in Bergen 1911. Delivered in June-1911 from Laxevaags Maskin- & Jernskibsbyggeri, Bergen (111) as cargo vessel Luna to Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab, Bergen. Steel hull, 213.9’ x 32.1’ x 12.7’, 959 gt, 1400 tdwt, Triple Expansion (Laxevaags) 115nhp, 9 knots. Sunk by submarine while on a voyage from London to Trondheim with general cargo, including rubber hose, zinc plates and hessian cloth. Torpedoed on December 31st 1939, by U-32 (Büchel) Position given is 58 48N 02 20E. The survivors were picked up by Colombia of Haugesund. | |
| Lusitania RMS | [Tony Allen:]Lustania RMS; propulsion: quadruple screw, four direct-acting Parsons steam turbines; Service speed: 25kts (46km/h); Builder: John Brown & Co. Ltd, Glasgow; Launch date: June 7 , 1906 Passenger accommodation: 563 1st class, 464 2nd class, 1,138 3rd class; Sunk : 07/05/1915; Location : South of Linsale, Ireland One of the more notorious disasters, this Cunard liner had set out from New York, USA, on 1st May 1915 with 1,959 people on board, including 440 women and 129 children, bound for Liverpool, England. As she was approaching St. Georges Channel, England, on the 7th May, south of Kinsale, Ireland, she was torpedoed without warning by the German submarine U-20. She sank in around 15 minutes with the loss of 1,198 souls. Similar acts of aggression were to be repeated by Germany early in the Second World War. These days, however, hardened by the knowledge of far worse atrocities and fed theories of political correctness, we are more likely to accept excuses, and less likely to point the finger of blame. | |
| Lusitania SS | [Tony Allen:]steamer of 1.834 tons sunk by a mine in 1915 while trying to assist the stricken Anglia, which had hit the same minefield. Do not mistake with the ''real'' Lusitania. | |
| Lutine HMS | The Lutine HMS, while on route from Great Yarmouth to Hamburg with a cargo of gold, silver bars and money, ran aground in the stormy night of 9th October 1799 on the banks between Terschelling and Vlieland. The ship was very soon broken into pieces by the heavy breakers and except for 1 man, all 270 crew drowned. Shortly after the accident, many attempts were done to recover her valuable cargo, sometimes with success. In total, some 120 gold and 60 silver bars are known to be salvaged. The Lutine was insured, causing Lloyd's a lot of financial problems to pay the damage. | |
| Lutzow | [Tony Allen:]Lützow, German, Derfflinger class Battle Cruiser. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Luxembourg SS | [Tony Allen:]Luxembourg was formerly called SONNENFELS (1921). She was built in 1915 and owned by COMPAGNE NATIONAL BELGE DE TRANSPORTS MARITIMES. Whilst on route from BUENOS AIRES for ANTWERP carrying a cargo of armours boiled beef, maize, bran, & sunflower seed she was torpedoed by U-38 and sunk. All the crew were saved. | |
| Luxembourg SS | [Tony Allen:]Luxembourg SS was a defensively armed steamer of 1.417grt On 11th September 1917, 3½ miles NNE from Pendeen Lighthouse she struck a mine and sunk. | |
| Luxor SS | [Tony Allen:]Luxor was a 3,571grt, defensively-armed Merchantship. On the 19 March 1918 when 27 miles SW by S from St Catherines, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Lycia SS | [Tony Allen:]Lycia was a 2.715grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 11th February 1917 when 20 miles NE by N from S Bishop, Ireland she was captured by submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Lynx HMS | An Acasta class destroyer, (Commander J F Cole RN), of 935 tons was mined in the Moray Firth, Scotland, with the loss of 70. There were 20 survivors. | |
| M-1 HMS | Royal Navy Submarine. Whilst this submarine could be described as an experimental boat in that a 12-inch gun from a battleship had been fitted she was not untried. Test firings had been carried out with success and she had toured the Mediterranean and elsewhere. She was a good sea boat and not intrinsically unstable as has been claimed. The concept proved impractical however, but had the opportunity arisen to use her for shore bombardment she may well have been successful. Prior to her loss she had departed Plymouth for an exercise with surface fleet ships off the south Devon coast but shortly after arriving at the exercise area she disappeared. Later investigations proved that she had been accidentally rammed whilst dived by the Swedish collier 'Vidar' which had been in the precise sea area on the date. It was not until this ship arrived in Stockholm on 20th November when the Captain learned of the loss of M1 that an investgation was undertaken. The Captain realised then that he might have struck something significant. He had previously thought the bumps he noticed at the time were 'underwater bombs' which he knew the Navy used in such exercises. The weather was also bad at the time and this could have made it more difficult to identify the cause. When the ship was examined in Sweden it was established that the paint on the stem of the ship matched exactly with that on the hull of M1. No other submarine had the same paint colouring at this time. The entire crew of 69 lost their lives. The wreck was first found on 29th September 1967. | |
| M-1 SS | M 1 Purchased by the RNN in 1918 and converted at the Rijkswerf in Willemsoorgd. At first, she bore the name ''Mijnenveger I'', which was later changed in M-1. She was part of the 2nd minesweepers Division stationed in IJmuiden. She suffered from engine failure and had to be scuttled by crew on May 14 1940. Salved by Kriegsmarine on July 27 1940 and commissioned as the Lazarettschiff ''LAZ 46''. She was renamed ZRD 5 as she became part of the Dutch Sea Rescue Service in 1941. She became part of the ''Bergungsschiffe Verband'' ( Rescue Tug Section ) and was renamed BS-10. Found in May 1945 and commissioned as the naval tug ''RS-21''. Sunk during a storm off Borkum, Holland on December 23 1949. | |
| M-2 HMS | [HSAC:]Royal Navy Submarine. Left Portland for a routine exercise in West Bay west of Portland Bill. The last communication from M2 was at 10.30am. The most likely cause of loss was an accident or some failure while she was trying to fly off her seaplane, as on 18th March the body of Leading Seaman Albert Jacob was found in the hanger, followed by that of Leading Aircraftman Leslie Gregory on 1st July, wearing flying overalls. There were no survivors from her crew of 60. The wreck has been found. [HSAC:] 1600 ton Royal Navy submarine, built 1918 as K19. 296ftx24ft. Originally carried 12in gun (same as M1). In 1928 gun removed, replaced with hangar to carry folding-wing seaplane with catapult launch. Sunk: 26 January, 1932, while exercising off Portland, probably in attempt to surface and launch seaplane in record time. It's believed hangar door was opened while still under water. All 60 of crew lost. Eleven-month salvage operation, headed by Ernest Cox of Scapa Flow fame, failed to raise her. Interesting link to M-2: http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/wtour5799.htm | |
| M-206 | [Other Source:]Scuttled on 14/08/1944. [Jan Lettens:]Picture is clearly not a trawler, but a small destroyer. | |
| M-21 | [Tony Allen:]M-21, British M154 Class Monitor. Hit two mines off Ostend and managed to steam towards Dover where she sank. | |
| M-26 or M-83? | [Le Grizzly:]M-26 ou M-83; Allemand; Dragueur de mines de type M 1935; Chaudières à mazout, machines à expansion de 3500 SHP;870 tx; 68,10 x 8,70 m; En cas M-26: bombardé par la RAF 15/05/1942; en cas de M-83, torpillé par MTB britanniques, le 14/06/1944; | |
| M-343 | German Minensuchboote, scuttled on 6th of August 1944, after being heavily damaged by the HMS Ashanti and the polish Piorun. She was trying to escape from Sain-Malo. | |
| M-3606 (ex-OceanVI) | [Martien Slaats:]M-3604 is de ex-Duitse trawler OCEAN VI op 29-8-1942 door vliegtuigen gebombardeerd en gezonken. | |
| M-61 | [Aad Kleijn:] M-61 was de voorste van de drie duitse mijnenvegers die om het oude noorderhoofd van Hoek van Holland door magnetische mijnen op 26 juli 1940 tot zinken is gebracht. De mijnenveger was van het type 57'class. Het schip was 80m lang, 9m breed en 2.5m diep. De schepen zijn uit elkaar geslagen. Mogelijk was de andere de M89 van hetzelfde type. En de M136. (bijgevoegd een foto van de m132 welke van dezelfde klasse was). | |
| Maas SS | [Michael Tolhuisen]Maas, Dutch steamer of 1.234 tons was sunk after htting a mine from UC-1 on July 24th, 1916. [Didier DE Waele:] Maas SS by A. Vuyck & Zonen Scheepswerf, Capelle a/d Ijssel for NV Houtvaart, Rotterdam; 1.234 gross tons; 750 net tons; 2.000 tons waterdisplacement; 71,63x10,85x5,49m; 3 cyl expansion engines; 890 hp; 8 knots; On July 24th 1916, Maas SS, capt W. Knook, struck a mine laid by UC-1, 2 miles East of lightship Noordhinder. She was sailing from Tunis to Rotterdam. 10 people perished. [Ludo Gugliermetto:] Built 1914 | |
| Mabel Baird SS | [Tony Allen:]Mabel Baird SS. Owned by J Cockerill Co. Powered by 233nhp Triple expansion engine giving 9 knots, 2,500grt. Dimensions: 289.1x45.3x21.9 feet, defensively-armed, 22 December 1917, 4 miles WSW from the Lizard, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 5 lives lost. | |
| Macedonia | [Tony Allen:]Macedonia was 1.454 tons and was 315 feet in length. | |
| Macedonier SS | [Tony Allen:]Macedonier was a steam freighter of 5.227 tons built in 1921 and owned by COMPAGNIE MARITIME BELGE (LLOYD ROYAL) SA. She was on route from TAMPA for TEES carrying 6.800 tons of phosphates. She was torpedoed by U-96 with the loss of 4 crew. | |
| Madali 2 SS | [Francis Botin] Lancé le 11 mars 1911 sous le nom de Olympos, puis prise de guerre britannique en 1919, rebaptisé Rialto en 1921, acheté en 1928 par la Compagnie des cargos algériens et rebaptisé Madali 2. Réquisitionné le 9 sept 1939 par la marine française puis le 4 aout 1940 par la marine allemande. | |
| Madam Alice | [Tony Allen:]Madam Alice was in collision with the vessel Lolaire and sank. | |
| Madam Renee SS | [Tony Allen:]Madam Renee was 509grt and a defensively-armed steamer. On the 10 August 1918, 1 mile NNE from Scarborough, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 10 lives lost. | |
| Madeline SS | [Tony Allen:]Madeline was a 2,890grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamship. When 14 miles ENE from Pendeen Light House, Cornwall, England she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 3 lives lost. | |
| Madrid SS | MADRID, German steaming passenger ship; built 1927 by Vulcan, Stettin as SIERRA NEVADA for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Renamed Madrid in 1937. 8.000 tons; 134x17303x11,5m; 2 triple expansion engines; Twin screws; 4.400hp; 13knots; 221 1st class, 209 3rd class and 302 steerage passengers; 86 crew. Hamburg-South America services, later requisitioned by Germany and used as target ship and tender for submarines. On 9th December 1941, she was attacked by British aircraft and sunk near Den Helder, The Netherlands. 12 people died. | |
| Madryn SS | [Tony Allen:]Madryn was 2,244grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 16 September 1918, 5 miles NNE from Trevose Head, N.Cornwall she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Madura SS | Sunk on 18/10/1917 by a U-boat, while en route from Montréal to France. | |
| Magdapur SS | [Tony Allen:]Magdapur was a British Steam Freighter built in 1920 - Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow - and shortened in 1935. She was owned by Thomas & John Brocklebank Ltd, Liverpool. She was on route from South Shields to Southampton in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-13. 6 crew lost, 75 survivors. [Technical:]general cargo vessel; two steam turbines double reduction geared to single screw; 1,147 nhp; two double ended & two single ended boilers, 24 corrugated furnaces engine by D. Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow turbines by Parsons Marine Steam Turbines Co Ltd, Newcastle; 8,641 GRT - 13,000 DWT; 493'5"" x 64' x 30'4""; service speed 13.5 knots; two decks, 3rd deck in No 1 hold - 8 cemented bulkheads fitted with direction finder & echo sounding device, cellular double bottom 396 feet Code letters GDXZ Official Number 143719 Port of registry Liverpool. | |
| Magdeburg | Magdeburg was sunk on 13th August 1944 by bombers. | |
| Magic HMS | [Other Source:]Sunk by German one-man torpedo. [Tony Allen:]Vessel was 890 tons and measured 220x32x7 feet. Powered by 2400nhp diesel engine giving 18 knots. Carried 2 x 3"" guns and several smaller calibre guns. 3 Officers,43 Ratings killed. | |
| Magne | [Other Source:]The Magne, a ship with a displacement of 1412 Brt and built in 1948, was ran over by the Swedish vessel Kirribilli (7.667 Brt). This caused the dead of 8 passengers aboard of the Magne. [Martien Slaats:]Magne was on the way from Kirribille to Scheveningen. 7 died. | |
| Magne SS | [Douglas Ferrier:] Magne SS was torpedoed and sunk by U 714 in the North Sea off the Firth of Forth on the 14th March 1945. I'm not sure if she was Danish or Swedish but she was part of a convoy heading towards London. She was 1226 tons and 249.6 feet long. [Tony Allen:]14 March, 1945, the 1.256 ton Swedish SS MAGNE, in convoy FS 1756, was torpedoed by U-741 and sunk just north of Berwick in position 55° 52’N 01° 59’W; she was on passage from Liverpool & Methil Roads for London and ten of her crew of twenty-one were lost. | |
| Magnus SS | [Tony Allen:]Magnus was a Danish Steam Freighter built in 1906. She was on route from DENMARK for METHIL in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-20. One survivor found. | |
| Magog SS (HX-52) | [Tony Allen:]Torpedoed and Shelled by U-99 off Ireland. | |
| Mahenge (la) SS | [Mark Page:]SS La Manhenge - 7.647tons. L 133.8m B 18.9m D 10.7m. Was going from Antwerp to Matadi and sunk after a collision with SS Granville in fog 30-6-1952. [Pamela Huff:] SS la Mahenge was formerly known as the SS Philippines Victory during WWII. [Frans Verhoeven:]s/s.Cargo (Victory); Rederij: C.M.B. In Dienst: 1947/1952; Vlag: Belgium; Thuishaven: Antwerpen; Bouwjaar: 1944; Gebouwd bij: California shipbuilding corporationLos Angeles. Tonnemaat: brt.7.612 dwt: 10.930; Vorige Namen: Phillippine Victory | |
| Mahratta | [Tony Allen:]Mahratta, 446x49.2x30 feet, powered by a 429 nhp triple expansion engine, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. She was carrying a general cargo from Calcutta. | |
| Maine | [Tony Allen:]Maine was 1.690 tons and 315,2 feet in length. | |
| Maine SS | [HSAC:]3.616 ton cargo steamer, built 1905. 375ftx46ft. 3600hp triple-expansion engine. Armed: 4.7in gun on stern. 500 tons chalk, 50 tons general, London for Philadelphia. [Divernet:]A torpedo from UC-17 hit the Maine on the port side just in front of the bridge on the morning of 23 March 1917. At the time she was 13 miles south of Devon's Berry Head, bound for Philadelphia. The blast blew the hatches off the holds, smashed the port gig and wrecked the bridge. It also blew a great hole in her side through which seawater poured on to her cargo of chalk, horsehair and goatskins. Hoping he might beach her, Captain Bill Johnston sent distress calls and set course for the nearest land. The Maine was taken in tow when her engines stopped, but it was too late. The bulkheads gave way and at 12.45pm she sank ''gracefully, upright and on an even keel'' within easy reach of Salcombe. The 3616 ton Maine was launched as Sierra Blanca in 1905 and was 114m overall with a beam of 14m. She was renamed in 1913. The wreck was swept of her superstructure in 1920. She was bought for 100 in 1961 by Torbay BSAC Branch, which sold her bronze propeller for £840. The 12cm gun on her poop was removed by unofficial salvors later. Despite being explored by thousands of divers, her 35kg solid brass bell was not found until 1987 - by two divers paying their first visit! | |
| Mainz | [Tony Allen:]Mainz, German, Kolberg class Light Cruiser. Sunk at the Battle of Heligoland Bight. | |
| Maipu | Three masted barque of 593 tons, 167ftx28ft. Sunk in 1879 when driven ashore. | |
| Majestic HMS | Otto Hersing in U21 sank this Majestic class battleship of 14.900 tons just two days after he had sunk the Triumph. Again the ship was at anchor off Cape Helles in the Dardanelles and again just a single torpedo was needed to send her to the bottom. This loss, along with that of Triumph and Goliath had a significant strategic effect and battleships were withdrawn from Cape Helles and would no longer provide artillery support to the land forces. 40 lives were lost out of a crew of over 700. | |
| Majorka | [Tony Allen:]MAJORKA (ex Clan Mackenzie), iron full rigged ship, by R. Duncan and Co, Port Glasgow, 1882, 1684 grt, 259.5x38.2x23.1 for Rederiacties Majorka K Bruusgaard. One deck, two transverse bulkheads. | |
| Malachite SS | Sunk on 23/11/1914 by a German U-boat. | |
| Malmanger SS | [Tony Allen:]Malmanger SS was built in 1917 by S B & Co of Chester. Dimensions 122.12x16.53x9.55. Powered by a single screw expansion engine. Bound from New York to Avonmouth carrying petroleum. Mined by UC43. | |
| Maloja SS | [Tony Allen:]Maloja SS, built 1911, 12,431grt P&O Steam Navigation Liner. Powered by 1.164 nhp quadruple expansion engine giving 19 knots. Dimensions: 550.4x62.9x34.4 feet. Defensively armed she struck a mine, 2 miles SW from Dover Pier and foundered on 27th February 1916. Ran on the Canadian Line. 122 dead. | |
| Malta SS | [HSAC:]2.244 ton Cunard line steamer;built 1865; 303ftx39ft; 212hp compound engines. Cargo: 2.000 tons general including copper ingots, tin plate and pig iron. Malta SS was en voyage from Liverpool for Genoa and Venice via Falmouth when she sank 15th October 1889, runnig ashore in dense fog under the cliffs of Kenidjack Castle, half-mile north of Cape Cornwall. All the 40 crew and 21 passengers were safely removed by the Sennen Lifeboat. | |
| Malve | [Tony Allen:]Malve was 1.488 tons and 251,7 feet in length. | |
| Malvina SS | [HSAC:]Malvina: 1244 ton iron-screw steamer-schooner, built 1879. 254ftx31ft. Armed. General, London for Leith. Position: 54°08'25N - 00°04'40W. Depth: 25m. Sunk: 3 August, 1918, by torpedo from UB-104 when 1 mile from Flamborough Head. Fourteen lost. UB-107: 649 ton German UBIII class submarine, built 1917. 181ftx19ft. Believed destroyed by depth-charging of armed yacht and trawlers on 27 July, 1918, off Scarborough, but found entangled with wreck of Malvina by divers in 1985. | |
| Manchester Commerce SS | [Tony Allen:]Manchester Commerce was 5,363grt Merchantship. On the 27 October 1914, 20 miles N ¼ E from Tory Island, Co Donegal, Ireland she was mined and sunk, 14 lives lost including Master. | |
| Manchester Inventor SS | [Tony Allen:]Manchester Inventor was a 4.247grt, British Merchantship. On the 18th January 1917 when 50 miles NW by W ½ W from Fastnet she was captured by submarine and sunk by torpedo. | |
| Manchester Merchant SS | [Tony Allen:]Manchester Merchant SS, built in 1900 by Palmers & Co. Dimensions 452'x52.2'x28.3' 5657tons and owned my Manchester Liners. Bound from New Orleans to Manchester with a cargo of 13.000 bales of cotton when fire broke out as she neared Ireland. Captain took the vessel into Dingle Bay and dropped anchor to fight the fire. Fire was fuelled by the remaining cargo of turpentine, soap, pitch pine & bulk maize. Captain scuttled ship. Attempts were made to salvage her but she was declared a total loss. | |
| Manchuria SS | [Tony Allen:]Manchuria was 2,997grt and a defensively-armed merchantship. On the 17 October 1917, 60 miles NW from Ushant, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 26 lives lost including Master. | |
| Mancunium | [Tony Allen:]Mancunium was 1286 tons and measured 246x38x15 feet. | |
| Mando SS | Freighter of 7.176 tons, 422 ftx57 ftx34 ft. Sunk in 1955, ran aground. | |
| Manina | [HSAC:]Manina; (ex-Corvus) 1333 grn ton Greek motor vessel, built 1947. 263.1x40.2x16.2ft by Oresundsvawvet A/B, Landskrona for Kanav Shipping. In ballast, under the command of Captain Victor Kaprokefalos from Bergen to Glasgow. Sunk 8th April, 1968, when running aground in a storm on the rock of Stack Skerry, 30 miles off Orkney. She was badly smashed, slipped off and sank. Nine of 14 crew died. | |
| Manipur SS | [Tony Allen:]Manipur was built in 1920 and was 8652 tons. She was a British Freighter owned by BROCKLEBANK LTD, THOS & JNO and was on route from BALTIMORE for LONDON when she was torpedoed by U-57 on the 17th February 1940 and sunk. She was carrying a cargo a general cargo inc iron. steel. lumber zinc slabs, copper. 14 crew lost from a total crew 79. | |
| Manx SS | [Tony Allen:]Delivered in Oct.-1916 from Van der Giessen & Zonen, Krimpen, The Netherlands as Anders to A/S F. Heredia (N. Røgenæs), Haugesund. 239.1' x 36.2' x 16.4', triple expansion 175 nhp (Alblasserdamche Maschf.). Requisitioned by The Shipping Controller, London, returned to owner in 1919. Sold to T. Wilhelms, Fredrikstad in 1936 and renamed Manx in 1937. Manx was on a voyage from West Hartlepool to Drammen with a cargo of coal when she struck a mine in the North Sea on Jan. 9-1940 and sank (Norway as still neutral at that time). 19 were on board, 8 managed to grab hold of an upturned lifeboat, but were scantily clad and in the stormy weather 4 of them gave up. After 8 hours the remaining 4 were rescued by a Norwegian ship, while 2 were rescued from a raft. 13 died. There is some dispute whether the vessel hit a mine or was torpedoed by U-19. | |
| Maori HMS | Built in 1909. Engels oorlogschip die op 7-5-1915 door een Duitse kustbatterijbij Zeebrugge tot zinken werd gebracht. De torpedojager H.M.S.Crusader trachtte hulp te bieden doch werd gedwongen zich terug te trekken. De opvarenden van de Maori, 7 officieren en 88 manschappen zijn in Zeebrugge aan land gekomen en krijgsgevangen gemaakt. | |
| Marana SS | [Diving Sussex:]Schooner, rigged steamer of 692 tons, sunk in 1891, when running aground. | |
| Marcella HMS | [Diving Sussex:]Private Yacht converted to an armed trawler in 1915 Position: Goodwin Bay | |
| Marcelle | [Tony Allen:]Marcelle, WW1 sunk by gunfire from german U boat | |
| Margaret Smith | [Diving Sussex:]Gravel Dredger 141ftx21ft draught of 8ft and 300 tons. Sunk: List due to cargo shift 1978 [Tony Allen:]Margaret Smith; 332 tons; 142x22 ft; Built in 1943 as a Collier. Requisioned by the MOWT. In 1947 she was renamed BROWNING and purchased by Anglo-Danubian Transport Co, London. In 1949 she was renamed MORETON CORBET and purchased by Kerton Shipping Co, Hull. In 1953 she was renamed LERRYN and purchased by Fowey Harbour Commissioners. In 1964 she was renamed PEN ADUR and was purchased by Seaborne Aggregate Co, Southampton, converted to a sand carrier. In 1969 she was renamed SAND WREN and purchased by South Coast Shipping Co, Southampton. In 1973 she was renamed by MARGARET SMITH and purchased by Bowen & Caine, Southampton. On the 28th June 1978 she sprang a leak, and capsized. She sank at 52°42N 01°28W. | |
| Margaret Sutton | [Tony Allen:]Margaret Sutton; 197grt, 2 August 1916, 35 miles SSE from St Catherine's Point, captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Margariti | [A vd Hel:]Heren heb een foto van de Margariti gezonken nabij de Eierlandse gronden Pos: 53 15 02 N 04 53 20 E. Dit is een foto uit een maandblad ( Nummer 104 Juni 1968) van de Nederlandse redding maatschappij de KNRM. | |
| Marginal II | Caught fire and sunk while under tow. | |
| Maria Rosa SS | [Tony Allen:]Maria Rosa was an Italian Steam Freighter. She was previously called TRITON in 1939. She was on route from MARSEILLES for HARTLEPOOL in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-20 and sank. 12 crew lost of a total crew 29 were lost. | |
| Maria W | [Tony Allen:]Maria W was 240 tons and 136 feet in length. | |
| Marianne SS | [Other Source:]Built 1920 by Duijvendijk, Nroway; ex-Haraldshaug; 9 knots; On 12th DEcember 1942, she was attacked by German E-boats. [Tony Allen:]Delivered in July-1920 from T. van Dnijvendijk, Lekkerkerk, Holland as Haraldshaug to D/S A/S Haug (A/S Merctor), Haugesund. (Tonnage is given as 1920 gt, 1112 net, 3150 tdwt in ""Våre gamle skip""). 265.4' x 42.4' x 18.6', tripe exp. 207 nhp (Hardinxveld). Sold in Sept.-1928 to Sigurd Brekke, Bergen and renamed Nygaard. Company went bankrupt in April 1930 and the ship was sold the following month at auction together with A. W. Brekke (ex Elida Clausen) to A/S Nesjar (Eilert Lund), Bergen and registered as Marianne. Marianne was 1 of 5 ships sunk in a convoy which was attacked by the 4th S-Flottille (Bätge) on Dec. 12-1942. She had departed Rochester in ballast on Dec. 10, arriving Southend that same day where she joined a convoy for Sunderland, leaving in the morning of December 12th. She was in Convoy FN 889. Torpedoed by S-63 (Block), 345° 2 miles from No 4 Buoy, Lowestoft, causing her to list heavily to port, while a tremendous amount of steam made it impossible to get from the bridge to the boat deck for a while. The wheelhouse was blown away and the alarm didn't work. Some had been blown overboard by the explosion, which occurred in the stoker room amidships, others had to jump into the water and swim away when the ship capsized. | |
| Marie | [Martien Slaats:]Marie EIGENAAR: N.V. REDERIJ MOTERSCHIP""HARM"",FOXHOL beheer:n.v. wijnne & barends,delfzijl; werf: scheepswerf"" volharding"" gebr. bodewes/128; bouwjaar: 1952; brt: 494; imonummer: 5223865; roepsein: PFUW; te water: 12-7-1952; proefvaart: 29-9-1952; indienst: 29-9-1952; Mutatie: 1972/MARIE>p.van derkooi & co., kampen; omgebouwd tot zandzuiger; 24 februari 1976 op reis van oostende-antwerpen met een lading zand in aanvaring met het griekse MS EUGENIA_K op 15 mijl noord van zeebrugge (belgie) vergaan in positie van 51,32,nb-03,11,ol waarbij twee bemanningsleden zijn omgekomen. | |
| Marie | French trawler. | |
| Marie Fanny SS | [Tony Allen:]Marie Fanny SS was a french steamship belonging to D'Orbigny & Faustin. Powered by a 94 nhp compond engine. Wrecked on the Casquests, Channel Islands. 15 dead. | |
| Marie Leonhardt SS | [Tony Allen:]Marie Leonhardt was a 1.466grt British Merchant ship. On the 14th February 1917 when 2¼ miles E ½ N from Sunk Light Vessel, English Channel she hit a mine and sank. 5 lives lost. | |
| Marina SS | [Tony Allen:]Marina was a 5.204grt, defensively-armed Merchantship of the Donaldson Line. On the 28th October 1916 when 30 miles W from Fastnet, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 18 lives lost. On route from Glasgow to Baltimore. | |
| Marjoram HMS | [Tony Allen:]Marjoram HMS was Sloop Steamship of 1290 tons. 'Anchusa'class. Built Greenock & Grangemouth 21.12.1917. Lost on Flimstone Head/Linney Head. She was to have been renamed President, a drillship,1921, but was wrecked on passage to Haulbowline foro fit out: The wreck was sold 8.9.21. | |
| Markgraf SMS | [Tony Allen:]Mark Graf scuttled in Scapa Flow. | |
| Marmion HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Marmion, British, M class Destroyer Collision with HMS Tirade in bad weather off the Shetland Islands. | |
| Marmora SS | [Tony Allen:]Marmora was built in 1903 for the P&O Line. In 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk off Ireland; loss of 10 lives. 10,509 tons. | |
| Marojam HMS | [Tony Allen:]Sunk close to shore in 1921 | |
| Mars | [Tony Allen:]Mars was 522 tons and measured 170 feet in length. | |
| Mars | [Tony Allen:]Mars was 1.877 tons and measured 81x13 metres. | |
| Mars SS | [Tony Allen:]Mars was a steam cargo vessel built in 1882 and was on route from LEITH for MALMO and STOCKHOLM carrying a crgo of coal when she was torpedoed by U-21 and sunk. 18 crew lost. | |
| Marthe (ex-Melita) | [Tony Allen:]four-masted iron/steel barque built in 1892 by A. Stephens & Sons, Dundee. Dimensions: 95,50×13,76×7,74 meters [310'1''×45'2''×25'5''] and tonnage: 2857 GRT and 2685 NRT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. 1892 November: launched as the Melita, at the shipyard of A. Stephens & Sons, Dundee, for their own account. 1894: Sold to Ant. Dom. Bordes et fils, Dunkerque, and was renamed Marthe I. Captain C. Engrand. 1898 May 11: Wrecked off Dunkerque coming from Pisagua with a load of Nitrites. | |
| Marwick Head SS | [Martien Slaats:] SS Marwick Head, ex-Alan Water. At 815 hours on 12-12-1939, the Marwick Head struck a mine laid on 5-12-1939 by U-59 and sank 0.5 miles South of the North Caister buoy. Five crew members were lost, the master and four crew members landed at Great Yarmouth [Tony Allen:]Marwick Head was on route from BONESS for LONDON with a cargo of coal. | |
| Mary Baird SS | [Tony Allen:]Mary Baird was a 1.830grt defensively-armed British Merchant steamship. On the 18th May 1917 when 2½ miles W ½ N from Pendeen Cove, Cornwall she hit a mine and sank. 7 lives lost. | |
| Mary Emma SS | [Ernst Jongejan:]Was met lading leien onderweg van Plymouth naar Bremen. | |
| Mary Orr | [Tony Allen:]Mary Orr was a sailing vessel of 91grt. On 10th September 1917, 8 miles N by E from Pendeen Lighthouse, Cornwall, she was captured by a submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Mary Rose | Very famous is the sinking of the Mary Rose in 1545. This vessel was built at Portsmouth between 1509/10 in what was the earliest dry dock in the world. It became Henry VIII's flagship and saw service in three French wars. In 1536 it was rebuilt and enlarged with a complete lower gun deck making it the first true ocean-going ship of war with the ability to fire a broadside, and was the prototype for all large battleships for the next two centuries. When it left Portsmouth on 15th July 1545 to face a French invasion fleet off the Isle of Wight it was the pride of the king's navy. But within a mile and a half of the entrance of the harbour the vessel was swamped with water coming through the lower deck gun ports and it rapidly sank in just 40 feet of water. An estimated 700 men lost their lives in the disaster, including its captain, Sir George Carew, and most if not all of the 300 heavily armoured soldiers on board. The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship built in 1509, sank off Southsea Castle on July 19, 1545 as the King watched his warships engage the French fleet. | |
| Mary Rose HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Mary Rose, British, M class Destroyer. Whilst escorting a convoy from Norway they were attacked by the German cruisers Brummer and Bremse in the North Sea. The German cruisers went on to sink nine of the twelve ships in the convoy. | |
| Mary Seymour | [Tony Allen:]Mary Seymour was a sailing vessel of 150grt. On 10th September 1917, 7 miles NNE from Pendeen Lighthouse, she was captured by submarine and subsequently sunk by gunfire. | |
| Mascotte SS | [Tony Allen:]Mascotte, 1.097grt, 3 September 1916, 6½ miles SE from Southwold,East Anglia, mined and sunk, 1 life lost. | |
| Matrona | [Tony Allen:]Bombed by German aircraft. | |
| Matt W. Ransom | [Tony Allen:]Matt W. Ransom. Deliberate sinking off Normandy. | |
| Maud Pierre Andre | Sunk on 16/03/1987 after collision with the cargo Eastern Unicorn. | |
| Mauve (la) SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]La Mauve was purposely sunk 1993 by the States of Jersey harbours department off the North coast of Jersey as an artificial reef. She was originally used as a maintenance vessel and diving platform and her steam engines only drove her winches, she never had a propeller and had to be towed everywhere. | |
| Maxwell SS | British steamer, Depth: 24m, forward section 18m Sunk: 3th April 1902 Imn collision with another steamer. | |
| Maywood SS | [Tony Allen:]Maywood was a 1,188grt Merchantship. On the 30 September 1916 when 1 mile W from Whistle Buoy, Le Havre she struck a mine and sank. | |
| Meath | [Tony Allen:]Meath was 1.598 tons and measured 321 feet in length. | |
| Mechanician SS | Mechanician SS a steel cargo, armed as a cargo vessel of 9.044 grt and measuring 482x57x31ft, was torpedoed by UB-35 on 20 January 1918, 8 miles West from St Catherines. 13 lives were lost. | |
| Mecklenburg SS | [Dirk Eekelers] Het stoomschip Meclenburg (I) was een van de eerste drie dubbelschroefsstoomschepen die voor rekening van de stoomvaart mij Zeeland werden bebouwd bij Fairfield shipbuilding & engeneering comp te Glasgow. Het waren schepen uitgerust met twee triple expansiemachines met een vermogen van 10.000 I.P.K waarmee ze een dienstvaartvan circa 22 mijl konden handhaven. De Meclenburg (w.Reedeker) S.M.Z (1909-2.885) op 27.2.1916 was het schip onderweg van Tilbuy naar vlissingen, op de noordzee oost ten zuiden van het galloperlichtschip liep ze op een mijn deze was gelegd door de UC-7. | |
| Medee SS | Medee; BLYTH SHIPBUILDING Blyth; for SNC; 1928; 86,5x12,75x4,9m; 3.200 tons; sistership Borée 1; Medee was requisisioned by the English army in 1940 and was used as a troop transport during D-day in 1944. She survived WWII, but sunk after capsizing on 12th July 1955. | |
| Medina SS | [HSAC:]Medina, Passenger cargo ship; 12,358 ton British P & O liner, built 1911; Caird & Company Greenock; . Used as royal yacht for Delhi celebrations of coronation of King George V. 550ftx63ft. Armed: 1914. 1164hp quadruple-expansion engines. General, including copper ingots, India for London. Sunk: 28 April, 1917 by torpedo in starboard side from UB-31, off Start Point, UK. Six engine-room crew killed, 411 passengers and crew saved. | |
| Medoc | [Tony Allen:] When France finally fell to the invading Nazi Hordes, most of her still powerful Navy became immobilised in various ports around the world, awaiting the decision of its government whether to surrender to the Germans or place their vessels at the disposal of the hard pressed Allies. Meanwhile the French Government was in crisis. Some members fled to England, others decided to cooperate with the Germans and so formed the Vichy government which was roundly condemned by the so called 'Free French' under a little known general called De Gaulle. Whilst all this was going on, the British under Churchill, decided to take matters in hand and promptly commandeered at gun point the French fleet stationed at Aboukir, an episode, that even today, still rankles. The Allies then went on to commandeer every other French vessel that it could lay its hands on. One of these was the cargo carrier the Medoc, 273 feet long, 34 feet wide with a displacement of 1.166 tons, the Medoc was loaded with ammunition, mostly 3.5 shell cases and cordite when she approached the vicinity of the Eddystone on the afternoon of 26 November 1940. A lookout spotted an aircraft coming towards the ship but decided that it was friendly. He soon realised his mistake when the plane opened fire and raked the Medoc with machine gun fire. As the plane turned away into the gloom of the late afternoon the crew thought that they were in for a lucky escape. However the enemy aircraft was just getting its act together. This time as it flew towards the Medoc it rattled off a couple of bursts with its machineguns and then dropped a torpedo with devastating effect. The Medoc sank like a stone. So quickly did she go that all thirty nine of her crew perished with her. Reproduced with kind permission of www.submerged.co.uk | |
| Medusa HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Medusa, British, M class Destroyer Collided with British destroyer HMS Laverock off the Danish coast whilst under attack by German aircraft. She had been screening the seaplane carrier HMS Vindictive on a raid. | |
| Meerkerk | The Meerkerk was built by Vulkan Vegesnek in 1916. She measured 152 meters in length, 18,2 meters wide and had a displacement of 7.995 BRT. The vessel sailed under flag of the 'Verenigde Nederlandse Scheepvaart Mij.' On June 16th 1946, the Meerkerk was waiting near the Middle Steenbanken for a pilot. In those days, the pilot services weren’t as smooth as they are today. Due to this long waiting, the Meerkerk drifted into an area that wasn’t cleaned from mines. The mine exploded by the stern between deck 4 and 5. The explosion caused a lot panic under the passengers. A lot of them jumped over board, disregarding the advice not to do it. During the disaster 12 people lost there lives. Despite a number of attempts to recover the ship, it was officially considered lost on June 19th. | |
| Meknes SS | [Tony Allen:]Meknes, 413.8x55.2x28.4 feet was a french liner repatriating french sailors after french surrender. Despite clear markings & lights vessel was intercepted by a German torpedo boat which sank her when she stopped. Sank off Portland with the loss of 374 Officers & Men. | |
| Mekong SS | [Tony Allen:]Mekong SS was 899 tons and measured 199 feet in length. | |
| Melbourne | [Tony Allen:]Melbourne was a four masted steel barque, 2691 tons. Built at Port Glasgow, 1892 as the Gustav, then Austrasia. Dimensions 305.1x44x24.7 ft. Bought by Captain Erikson in 1929. Captained by Captain Johansson. Sunk in four minutes after a collision with the Anglo-American Oil Company’s Seminole when off Fastnet, Ireland, July 1932. Eleven of her crew of twenty-six, including the master, who was on his last voyage, drowned. | |
| Meldon SS | [Tony Allen:]Meldon, 2.514grt, mine and sunk on 3 March 1917, Firth of Lorne. The min was laid by U-78. | |
| Melrose SS | Stoomschip van 1.589 BRT, gebouwd in 1906 bij Ramage & Ferguson Ltd., Leith. Eigenaars G. Gibson & Co. Ltd., Leith. Op 15 maart 1940 gezonken bij Oostende door mijn gelegd op 9 maart 1940 door ''Schiff 11'' in 51°21'N en 02°13'E. | |
| Memnon SS | [Tony Allen:]Memnon was a 3.,203grt British Merchant ship. On the 12th March 1917 when 20 miles SW from Portland Bill, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 6 lives lost. | |
| Memphian SS | [Tony Allen:]Memphian SS, a 6.305 grt defensively armed steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on October 8th 1917, 7 miles ENE from N Arklow Light Vessel, Ireland. 32 lives were lost. | |
| Mendi SS | []Royal mail steel steamer. Steel steamer of 4.230 tons, sank following collision with steamer Darco in 1917. More than 650 men, most of them South African military labourers, lost their lives in the sinking.[Tony Allen:] Owned by the British & African Steam Navigation Cpy. Mendi was powered by a triple expansion steam engine giving 424nhp and 11.5 knots. | |
| Menelaos SS | [Tony Allen:]Menelaos SS capsized in heavy weather on the outer Owers. | |
| Menja SS | De SS Menja is een Zweeds schip, groot 887 B.R.T. Geladen met hout van Nyham naar Gravelines. Op 3-12-1935 om 16 uur raakte het schip ter hoogte van de Terschellingerbank lek, geprobeerd werd de haven van Den Helder te bereiken. De toestand werd al hachelijker en het schip strandde waar het nu ligt. Alle 15 koppen werden gered. | |
| Mercator SS | [Tony Allen:]Mercator was a steam cargo vessel built in 1904 and was previously called Manchester Mariner (1925). She was owned by FINSKA ANGFARTYGS A/B. A/B FINLAND-AMERIKA LINJEN O/Y and was on route from BUENOS AIRES and LEITH for HELSINKI with a cargo of coffee, maize, linseed, casein and groundnut meal when she was torpedoed by U-21. 1 crew lost. | |
| Merchant Royal SS | [www.marine-one.co.uk:] British cargo ship. The Merchant Royal was a British cargo steamer, formerly known as the Goodwood. She was 5.008 tons, 416ft long and had a beam of 55ft. She was built in 1920 by J Redhead & Sons at Sunderland and was fitted with a huge Doxford triple-expansion three-cylinder steam engine. On the 3rd July 1946, carrying her cargo of steel and wood, she collided with another vessel and sank. Attempts to rescue her by tugs despatched from Portland were in vain. | |
| Mercurius SS | [Tony Allen:]Mercurius, dredger, 129grt, 28 June 1916, 3 miles SE from Lowestoft, mined and sunk, 6 lives lost. | |
| Mère Theresa | Sunk in 10 minutes time. Trémailleur ? | |
| Meredith USS | Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath Me: Laid Down: July 26, 1943; Launched: December 21, 1943 Commissioned: March 14, 1944 Meredith USS, an american destriyer struck a mine off Utah beach Normandy France June 8, 1944 and was sunk the day after by German aircraft Off Utah Beach, with the loss of 35 of her crew. | |
| Mersey (+1916) | [Tony Allen:]Mersey, dimensions: 225x36.1x16.4 feet. | |
| Mersey SS (+1940) | [Tony Allen:]Mersey was built in 1906 for the Goole Steamship Company for the Goole-Hull-Rotterdam route. In 1940 she was mined and sunk off Kent. | |
| Mesaba SS | [Tony Allen:]Mesaba was a 6.833 grt a defensively-armed British Merchantship of the Atlantic LIne. On the 1st September 1918 when 21 miles E ¼ N from Tuskar Rock, (St Georges Channel, East Coast of Ireland) she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine. 20 lives were lost including the Master. She was on route from Liverpool to Philadelphia. | |
| Messina SS | Iron steamer sailer, 1.063 tons, wrecked in 1885. | |
| Metamorphosis | [Martien Slaats:]Metamorfosis (ex Willem van Driel) is 24-11-1950 vetrokken van ronnskar met een lading pyriet voor amsterdam 2-12-1950 tijdens een zware storm gestrand bij Zandvoort en in tweëen gebroken. | |
| Mexico | [Tony Allen:]Built by Nakskov Skibsværft, Nakskov, Denmark in 1920. Owner: Skibs-A/S Mexico; Manager: Hans Hannevig, Horten; Tonnage: 3017 gt, 1712 net, 4530 tdwt; Signal Letters: LIZD; Built by Nakskov Skibsværft, Nakskov, Denmark in 1920. Captain: Godtfred Sandnes; Mexico is listed among the ships in Convoy HX 46 in May/June-1940 - several other Norwegian ships took part, follow link for cruising order. In Nov. that year she was scheduled for Convoy HX 91, but may have sailed in the slower convoy SC 14 instead. Final Fate - 1941: In March of 1941 E-boats laid several mine fields along the east coast of Great Britain, while aircraft dropped large quantities of magnetic and acoustic mines at the inlets to Mersey, the Thames, Humber and Clyde. Ship losses increased dramatically. Mexico struck a mine near the Thames estuary at about 09:05 on March 6-1941 (51 53N 01 37E), while on a voyage in convoy from Curaçao (via Halifax and Methil?) to London with 3823 tons fuel oil. Vessel sank quickly. | |
| MGB No12 | [Tony Allen:]Wooden Gunboat hit a German mine. Sank in Feb 1941 | |
| Mi Amigo | [Arie De Lange] Ex- Magda Maria; Ex -Bon Jour; Ex -Olga; Ex -Margarathe. Panamees motorschip gebouwd in 1921 bij Deutsche Werke A.G. te Kiel. Eigenaar: Vagabond Films. Mi Amigo was één van de radiopiraten in de '80 jaren die geankerd lag buiten de territoriale wateren in de positie 51.39.42N 01.33.24E. Tijdens een zware storm 8 Bft op 20-3-1980 is het schip van zijn ankers losgeslagen en in moeilijkheden gekomen. De opvarenden zijn gered door de Sheerness reddingsboot van de RNLI. De Mi Amigo heeft tijdens het driften een onderwater object geraakt en is lek gestoten en gezonken. De zendmast van 40 meter stak nog lang boven water uit. | |
| Miami SS | [Tony Allen:]Miami was a 3.762grt defensively armed British Merchant steam ship. On the 22nd June 1917 when 11 miles ESE from the Fastnet, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Miantonomah USS (CM-10) | The Miantonomah was sunk by a mine holing her starboard, behind the bridge. She sunk 1 mile from the port of Le Havre. 58 crew died. | |
| Michael Clements HMT | Steel Admiralty trawler of 324 tons, sank after collision in 1918. | |
| Michallis Prois | [Tony Allen:]Michallis Prois was 4.167 tons and measured 365 feet in length. Ran aground in fog. | |
| Middlesex | [Tony Allen:]Middlesex; Built in 1920 and 1941 mined and sunk off South Wales. Owned by the Federal Steam Navigation Co. which was taken over by the P & O Line in 1916. | |
| Milbanke SS | [Diving Sussex:]Milbanke SS; 1296 ton, 243ft, beam of 31ft, draught of 18ft, British Steamer, sunk 28th July 1874 in collision with the Hankow 14 died. Was carrying a cargo of zinc. | |
| Milly SS | [Tony Allen:]Milly, 2,964grt, defensively-armed British Merchantman on the 6 September 1918, 2¼ miles W ¾ S from Tintagel Head, Cornwall was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost. | |
| Milo SS | [Tony Allen:]Milo SS. Admiralty Collier. Dimensions: 240.5x32.8x16.9 feet. Powered by a triple expnasion engine of 207nhp. Sank after collision of St. Albans Head. Vessel was in ballast. | |
| Minerve | [Diving Sussex:]French submarine of 597 tons, 211 ftx20 ft. Sunk in 1945 when running aground. | |
| Minerve SS | [Tony Allen:] Three masted iron screw steamship | |
| Minette (la) | The French trawler ''La Minette'' was sunk by an explosion of a mine on 21st February 1988. | |
| Minion HMS | Minion HMS was a 1.025 ton WW1 M-class destroyer. She measured 276x26ft. She was lost under tow to the breakers. | |
| Miniota SS | [Other Source:] Torpedoed by a submarine on 31/08/1917. Owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. [Tony Allen:] Miniota SS, torpedoed by U-19. 3 Lives lost. Bound from Montreal to Portland. Cargo reported to be 50T Aluminium, 200T Brass, 108253 ounces of Silver. [Tony Allen:] Built 1913. ex HACKNESS. Was purchased from Pyman Bros. London and renamed Miniota. | |
| Minnehaha | Barque of 845 tons, 158 ftx33 ftx22 ft. Drove on to Penissis Head (St Mary's Scillies), January 18th, 1874. She had taken fourteen months bringing a cargo of guano from South America to Falmouth, and was on her way to discharge at Dublin. A north-west gale was blowing when at 3 am Captain Jones ordered a course that might have saved the ship; but, without his knowledge, the Channel pilot countermanded it. The Minnehaha struck with all sails set, and sank almost at once. The crew took to the rigging. Captain Jones undressed, cried ''With God's help I will save all your lives!'' and leapt into the huge sea. He was never seen again. The mate, more intelligently if less heroically, waited in the rigging till daylight and then led nine of the crew along ropes and yards until they could leap ashore. Nine other men were drowned, including the pilot, whose body was washed up near Padstow two months later. (Shipwreck - text by John Fowles) | |
| Minnehaha SS | [Tony Allen:]Minnehaha SS was built by Harland & Woolf Ltd and was sunk by U-48 12 SE of the Fastnet Rock. | |
| Minsk SS | [Tony Allen:]Minsk was built in 1911 and was 1229 tons. She was on route from MANCHESTER for ESBJERG when she was torpedoed by U-19 and sunk by gunfire. Of the crew of 20, 11 were lost. | |
| Minterne SS | [Tony Allen:]Minterne, 3,018grt, 3 May 1915, 50 miles SW from Wolf Rock, Cornwall. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost. | |
| Miown SS | [Dirk Eekelers:]Miown, built in 1909 for Cardiff Coasters Ltd. was a 379 ton steel steamship, 135.4x22.9x12.2ft. , compound 2 cylinders engine. In 1914, while en route from London to Bristol, she sunk with a cargo of cement.[Tony Allen:]Built and launched as the Montrose Two. Sold fater one year of service an drenamed Miown. In 1913 the Comapny, Cardiff Coaster Ltd under the guidance of its managers, Messrs Fox & Thomas & Co purchased Miown and operated her from Cardiff docks until here loss. | |
| Mira | Mira, built in 1901 was a 3.700ton, 345 ft British tanker. She sank 11th October 1917, mined by UC-50 | |
| Miranda | [Tony Allen:]Built in Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1921. Miranda was on a voyage from Blyth to Oslo with a cargo of coal when she on January 20th or 21st 1940 she was torpedoed by U-57 (Korth) in the North Sea. She had a crew of 17, 14 died. The 3 survivors were taken to Kirkwall. Norway was still neutral at the time. | |
| Miranda SS | [Aad Kleijn:] De Miranda was een stoomschip onder de engelse nationaliteit met een tonnage van 688 reg. ton. De lading was graan en kwam in aanvaring op 8 oktober 1883 met het Spaanse schip de Galja. | |
| Mirella SS | [Tony Allen:]Mirella was an Italian Steam Freighter. She was previously called VALLARSA (1935) WAR PROPHET (1919)and was built in 1918 and was owned by GAVARONE FU GIOVANNI, DITTA GIOVANNI. She was on route from TYNE for LEGHORN with 3900 tons of coal when she was torpedoed by U-20. 1 crew lost from a total crew 30. | |
| Mirtledene SS | [Tony Allen:]Mirtledene dimensions:312.5x40.4x24.6 feet. Powered by a triple expnasion engine giving 253nhp. Wrecked near Portland Bill carrying a cargo of iron ore. | |
| Missanabie SS | [Tony Allen:]Missanabie was a 12.469grt, defensively-armed British Merchanship of the Canadian Pacific Line. On the 9th September 1918 when 52 miles S by E ½ E from Daunts Rock,Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 45 lives lost. On route from Liverpool to New York. | |
| Missouri SS | [Tony Allen:]Missouri was built 1881 for the Furness-Warren Line. In 1886 wrecked in Caernarvon Bay, Wales; no loss of life. | |
| Mistley | [Tony Allen:]Mistley ran aground south side of Beadnell Point, Farnes, Northumberland. | |
| ML-103 | Sunk by a mine in WWII. | |
| MM SS | ss Stella 1909-1940 KNSM, 1909 Hamilton Port of Glasgow, 1934 named PHSR. On 11th May 1940, Stella SS was escaping from Antwerp for the Germans, when she was hit five times by German bombers. She sunk near Flushing (on the ''Spijkerplaat''). | |
| MMS 248 | Houten mijnenveger van de Britse Marine die op 30 januari 1945 op een mijn gelopen is. | |
| Mobeca | [Tony Allen:]Mobeca was 3.512 tons and measured 426,5 feet in length. | |
| Mohamed Ali El-Kebir SS | [Tony Allen:]Mohamed Ali El-Kebir was built in 1922 and formerly called TENO (1935). She was owned by PHARAONIC MAIL LINE SAE and on route from AVONMOUTH for GIBRALTAR carrying government stores and mail. Sunk in approximate position 55N 18W by German submarine U-38 Captain Heinrich Liebe. From a total of 1.397 men on board, 60 men were lost. | |
| Mohegan SS | [HSAC:]6.889 ton four-masted liner, built 1897as Cleopatra. 482ftx52ft. 894hp triple-expansion engines. 1.280 tons general, including 3000 slabs of tin, spirits, beer, linoleum, prunes, matches, cheese, nutmeg, preserves, jute, rice, books, coffee, toys, lard, pepper, tobacco, bacon, horse hair, furniture, lace, church ornaments. 53 passengers, 103 crew, London for New York. Sunk: 14 October, 1898 by striking Manacle Rocks (first Vase, then Voices) when steering wrong course after passing the Eddystone. | |
| Moidart SS | [Mark Page:]Moidart. Built: 1878 for James Cormack & Co, Leith; 1044 tons; Sunk: 9th Jun 1918 by UC-77 whilst on voyage from Barry to Rouen with a cargo of coal. 15 lost.[Tony Allen:]Moidart, 1.303grt, defensively armed, 9 June 1918, 7 miles SE ½ E from Lyme Regis, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 15 lives lost. | |
| Moldavia SS | [HSAC:]Moldavia SS; 9.505 ton P&O liner, built Greenock 1903. Commandeered by government as armed merchant cruiser 1915. 520ftx58ft. 340hp triple-expansion engines. Armed: Eight 6in guns. 900 US troops, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for London. Sunk: 23 May, 1918, by one torpedo from UB-57 (Oberleutnant Johann Lohs). 57 US soldiers killed. | |
| Molesey SS | 3,218 ton Armed Merchantman. Sunk: 1st December 1917, Torpedoed by UB-81 she then surfaced and then set her explosives to finnish the job. UB-81 was sank the next day the Molesay being her only victim. | |
| Molesley | [Tony Allen:]MOLESLEY. (London).(Bt Stockton on Tees 1899). Steamship. 3809 tons. 348'x 50 x 26'ft. Middle Island. SE.side. (ex Rokeby). Left Manchester with water ballast for Cardiff. Ran into Gales, anchors failed, taken by swell broadside onto SE corner Middle Island. Six men and a woman from the Molesley were killed as the lifeboat failed to find them. The St David's lifeboat reached the Molesey, but upon finding no signs of life they returned. The crew were still on board, and the Angle Lifeboat was called out the next morning and rescued the remaining 28 crew. | |
| Molina SS | [HSAC:]1.122 ton, Norwegian steamer, built 1905. 229ftx36ft. Le Havre to Swansea. Sunk: 22 January, 1918, by torpedo from UB-35, 7 miles south-east of Needles. | |
| Monarch 1 | Built in 1883. Cable layer sunk by a mine in 1915. | |
| Monarch 3 SS | [HSAC:]1.150 ton Post Office cable-laying steamer, built 1915, requisitioned by Admiralty in 1939. Third cable-layer to be called Monarch. 235ftx33ft. Sunk: 16 April, 1945, by torpedo in starboard side from U-2324 (Kapitanleutnant Konstantin von Rapprad) while returning to Felixstowe from repairing Suffolk-Holland cable. Two crew lost. | |
| Monarch HMS | Sunk as a practice target 21st January 1925. | |
| Mona-s Queen SS | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:]Construit en 1934 par Cammell Laird de Birkenhead pour la compagnie ''Steam Packet'' de l'île de Man. Long de 103m, large de 15m, son tirant d'eau est de 5,20m. Sa masse de 2.756 tons est emmenée à une vitesse de croisière de 22 nœuds par deux turbines produisant 8000 chevaux. Un simple réducteur entraîne les deux hélices jumelées. La compagnie ''Steam Packet'' fut l'une des premières à posséder des chaudières à vapeurs à tubes prenant moins de place que les chaudières à vapeurs écossaises utilisées précédemment. Conçu pour transporter environ 2500 passagers en offrant des commodités de grande qualité, notamment 20 cabines privées, l'imposant Mona's Queen exhibait une nouvelle coque blanche et impressionna fortement lors de ses cinq premiers voyages en provenance de Liverpool grâce à sa ligne droite et à sa poupe elliptique. Le Mona's Queen a été réquisitionné immédiatement après le commencement de la guerre pour transporter des troupes à travers la Manche. Il voyagea vers l'est en mai, jusqu'aux ports hollandais pour embarquer civils & militaires. Commandé par le capitaine R. Duggan, le navire, amarré à Boulogne le 23 mai appareilla pour Douvres avec 2000 soldats quand les Panzers allemands envahirent la ville; le 26 mai, le Mona's Queen était l'un des premiers bateaux de transport de troupe à atteindre Dunkerque après avoir essuyé le feu nourri de l'ennemi depuis la côte et après avoir été bombardé en piqué. Un total de 1200 hommes était embarqué et le Mona's Queen arriva à Douvres la nuit du 27. Avec le capitaine A. Holkmam, remplacant R. Duggan, le Mona's Queen navigua de nouveau dans les premières heures du 29 mai, transportant des centaines de bidons d'eau potable, mais à 5H30 du matin, et seulement à un demi mile de l'entrée du port de Dunkerque, il percuta une mine et sombra en moins de 2 minutes. 24 membes d'équipages périrent, plus de la moitié d'entre eux dans la salle des machines et dans la chaufferie, alors que 32 survivants furent recueillis par le destroyer Vanquisher. | |
| Moncousu | [Tony Allen:]Moncousu was used for bombing practice. | |
| Mongolian SS | [HSAC:]4.892 tons British cargo steamer, built 1891. 400ftx45ft. 582hp triple-expansion engines. General, London from Middlesbrough. Sunk: 21 July, 1918, by torpedo from UC-70. 36 of crew lost. | |
| Mont Louis | The Olau Britannia collided with the CGM container vessel Mont Louis. There was big panic along the Belgian coast as the cargo of the Mont Louis contained radio-active and toxic waste. Some barrels with toxic goods were found on beaches near De Haan. The ministry of health said that there was no danger to the civilians. | |
| Montagu HMS | [HSAC:]Battleship, Duncan class. Launched at Devonport dockyars 5 March 1901 as the Montague, renamed the same year. 14.000 tons; 750 crew; 418x75.5x27-25 ft. Carried a 7in belt of armour on the waterline; 11in on the top of her main turrets and 12in on the control tower. Armament: 4x12in guns; 12x6in ; 12x12 pounders 6x3 pounders; 2xMaxim machine guns; 4x18 in submerged torpedo tubes. Propulsion 2x4 cyl, vertical inverted triple expansion steam engines, developing 18.000 hp 24 Belville boilers twin screws giving a maximum speed of 19 knots (burning 15 tons of coal per hour). Went ashore 29th May 1906 on the Shutter reef on the south west corner of Lundy in fog and became a total loss. Massive efforts to refloat her failed. Six months of salvage work followed. | |
| Montauban | [Tony Allen:]Montauban was 4.191 tons and 364 feet in length. Ran ashore a Salt Scar Rocks. | |
| Mopsa SS | [Tony Allen:]Mopsa, 885grt, 16 July 1916, 7 miles S from Lowestoft, mined and sunk. | |
| Mosel SS | Steamer, barque (rigged) of 3.200 tons, 350 ftx40 ft. Sunk in 1882. Stranded in fog. | |
| Moss Rose | [Tony Allen:]Moss Rose was a sailing vessel of 161grt. On 10th September 1917, 7 miles NNE from Pendeen Lighthouse, she was captured by a submarine and sunk by gunfire. | |
| Mount Carmel | Sunk after collision with a wreck on 22/08/1918. | |
| Mount Myrto SS | [Tony Allen:]Mount Myrto was a Greek Steam Cargo vessel that was built as Alsace, 1921 renamed Alsace II, 1934 renamed Mount Myrto. She was built by 1919 - Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada for J A Cosmetto & Kulukundis Shipping Co SA, Lausanne, Switzerland & Piraeus. Whilst on route from Galveston for London carrying a general cargo and timber she was torpedoed by U-38 but sunk by gunfire. | |
| Mountaineer | [Tony Allen:]Mountaineer ran aground SW of Lady Rock, Oban, Scotland. | |
| Mountby | [Tony Allen:]Mountby, 3.263grt, defensively armed, built in 1898 by Ropner & Son, Stockton by whom she was owned. 10 June 1918, 8 miles E by S from the Lizard, torpedoed without warning and sunk by U-49. | |
| Moussaillon | One of the three wrecks sunk on 1st June 1940 on the same place. (Denis Papin, Vénus and Moussaillon). During their third voyage between Dunkirk and England, the auxiliary tug 'Denis Papin' (408 persons on board) accompanied by the 'Vénus' (218 persons), the ''Moussaillon'' (319 persons) and ''Président Briant'' (283 persons) leave the port of Dover. At 15h00, they are under constant fire from the 155mm ground batteries at Gravelines. At 16h30, they are attacked by 8 bomber stukas. Denis Papin sinks first in 30sec time, followed by 'Vénus' and 'Moussaillon'. Only the tug 'Président Briant' can escape. | |
| Mrav SS | [Diving Sussex:]Mrav SS; 3.870 tons;, 341ft; Yugoslavian steamer, sunk 29th April 1936 Collision in fog with the steamer Mari. | |
| Mulberry | [Diving Sussex:]6.044 ton, A-1 type Mulberry unit, built 1943. 204ftx56ft beam, 60ft high, drawing 20ft, concrete with steel reinforcing rods. Floating ''egg-box'' of 22 compartments. Part of prefab D-Day harbours being towed by tugs to Normandy. Bofors gun on top platform amidships. Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible. The idea was that Allied forces could be re-supplied through pre-fabricated harbours towed into place on the invasion beaches. This enabled the momentum of the attack to be maintained until major ports could be captured and cleared. The various Mulberry structures were built in the UK and towed in strings across the Channel to build harbours at Arromanches for the British and Omaha beach for the Americans. The enclosed area of each was equivalent to the harbour at Dover. The Pagham Mulberry is a Phoenix unit, a 60m, 6044 ton reinforced concrete caisson barge, designed to be sunk to form a pier from which ships could be unloaded. It was one of many stored in the area by the simple method of flooding until it rested on the seabed. Later the ballast tanks were pumped out to re-float it for the invasion, but the tugs were not ready and it had to be resunk. In the process it swung in the tide and broke its back as it settled across its own previous scour in the seabed. | |
| Mulheim RMS | [Tony Allen:]The RMS Mulheim ran ashore at Castle Zawn, between Sennen Cove and Land's End, at appx 0430 on Saturday 22nd March 2003. The 1,846 tonne vessel ran on to rocks between Land's End and Sennen on 22 March while en route from Cork to Lubeck, Germany. The tanker was loaded with more than 2,200 tonnes of car scrap metal and stredded plastic. Sennen Cove Lifeboat and Land's End Coastguard Cliff Team were quickly on the scene ; with the crew being airlifted to safety by a rescue helicopter from Royal Naval Air Station, Culdrose. The ensuing salvage operation has attracted national media coverage - with particular interest in the recovery of the ship's cargo of plastic scrap. | |
| Munster | [Tony Allen:]Munster was built in 1938 by Harland & Wolf of Belfast for the Liverpool- Dublin passenger ferry link. 353'x 50'x 14'. 20-cylinder oil engine 1.347hp with twin screws. Owned by Coast Lines. Whilst on the Belfast to Liverpool run, she triggered a magnetic mine near to the Liverpool Bar at 6 am. No casualties. | |
| Murree | [Tony Allen:] Sank in a gale off Start Point, Devon, when containers moved. | |
| Myrmidon HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Myrmidon, British, 30-knotter class Destroyer. Collision with SS Hamborn in the English Channel. | |
| Myrtlegrove SS | Steel steamer of 2.642 tons, sank following collision in 1917. | |
| Mystique MFV | [Tony Allen:]Mystique MFV was deliberately sunk as a diving attraction. She is 20 metres in length. | |
| N.G. Petersen SS | [Yves Dufeil:]Le 13 Mars 1918, le vapeur danois N.G. Petersen sombrait à la suite d'une collision en Baie de Falmouth avec le norvégien Siri. Il effectuait alors un voyage en convoi de Castro Urdiales à Newport avec un chargement de 1900 tonnes de minerai de fer. [Yves Dufeil:]N.G. Petersen, built 1898 and owned by A/S Dampsk. Selsk. Vendila (Svendsen & Christensen), Copenhagen. She was lost in Bay of Falmouth March 13, 1918 due to a collision with norwegian SS SIRI while in convoy. She was not torpedoed. The vessel was carrying a cargo of iron ore. | |
| N-12 Arthur | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]Gezonken in positie 51°23’50”N en 03°03’E, geen doden. Tonnenmaat 15 netto en 50 bruto ton; Bouwjaar: 6; Materiaal: s; Motor: Deutz van 210 PK; Eigenaar: R schip was de garnaalvisserij aan het bedrijven in de omgeving van de Deurlo-boei. Op 11 september 1997 omstreeks 16.30u zijn beide boelen vastgeslagen aan een wrak. Door vooruit en achteruit te slaan werd geprobeerd vrij te komen, wat echter niet lukte. Er stond na bepaalde tijd veel water in de machinekamer en het logies. De bemanning is overgestapt in het reddingsvlot en werd later door een helikopter van de basis van Koksijde opgepikt. | |
| N-147 Suzanne | Houten vissersvaartuig van 57,85 brutoton, gebouwd in 1955 bij scheepswerf A. Loy, Nieuwe Werfkaai, Oostende. Reder: Norbert Vercoutter, Oostduinkerke. Vergaan door aanvaring met Cypriotisch motorschip PERAMA op vrijdag 18 januari 1974. | |
| N-57 Sea Hunter | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]N-57 Sea Hunter was fishing off the Thames Estuary and coming back to port in very bad weather on 8th October 1998, when nothing was heard from her anymore. The ship was found later near the Ost Dyck bank, 18m deep without collision damage. All crew drowned. One crew member was found immediately, another when the N-57 was lifted and the two remaining crew washed ashore on the Belgian coast. | |
| N-575 | [Didier De Waele:] N-595 Golfbreker; 1969; 70 tons; 24m; N-595 en route from Dunkerke and Calaiscame in the night of May 20th 1995 in collision with an unknown object. The ship sunk within 4 minutes. The crew of three managed to escape by jumping in the sea and was saved by LT-178 Fortissimo. | |
| N-591 Dageraad | Houten vissersvaartuig van 48,82 brutoton, gebouwd bij scheepswerf L. De Graeve, Zeebrugge. Reder: Coulier Rene - Desaever, Nieuwpoort. Vergaan op 23 september 1976 door brand op het achterschip veroorzaakt door een oververhitte schroefas. Geen gewonden. | |
| N-71 Maria | [Rik Maes:]In pos N 51°07.700 - E 002°37830 liggen de resten van het Nieuwpoortse visserschip N 71 Maria, die eigendom was van Lucien Beschuyt. | |
| N-711 Roberta Clara | Wooden fishing vessel, built 1945, Provoost, Nieuwpoort, 40 hp Moës motor, 2.86 tons net, 12.5 tons gross weight. Sunk in collision with O-77. Crew was saved. | |
| N-736 Lucky | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]De N-736 was op 29 april 1992 uit Oostende afgevaren om te gaan vissen in de omgeving van de Rabsbank, 15 mijl noord van Zeebrugge. Alles verliep normaal tot op 7 mei omstreeks 0400u. de netten werden opgehaald en de schipper stelde vast dat beide netten verzwaard waten met zand en stenen. Omdat de beide netten niet tegelijk konden worden naar binnen gebracht werd beslist de stuurboordkuil eerst te winden. Toen het zware net binnenboord kwam is het (zoals gebruikelijk) tegen de bakloper gezwierd (die het doorslingeren moet verhinderen). De bakloper is echter gebroken waardoor de stuurboordkuil is doorgeslingerd. Aangezien de bakboordkuil, ook zeer verzwaard, nog buitenboord hing, is het schip beginnen kapseizen. De bemanningsleden, met uitzondering van matroos Paul Andries die nog in de kombuis was, zijn overboord geslingerd. Savels, Meyers en Serlez zijn op het omgekeerde schip kunnen kruipen, en werden rond 6u30 opgemerkt door B-601 (die hen naar Zeebrugge heeft overgebracht). Matroos-motoris François Loge, die op dek stond, was vermist. Zijn stoffelijk overschot is enkele dagen later op de kust van Walcheren aangespoeld. De N-736 bleef aanvankelijk omgekeerd drijven. Vermits de drie bemanningsleden die op de kiel waren gekropen, klopgeluiden hadden gehoord wisten ze dat matroos Andries nog leefde. Op het moment van de feiten was die alleen in het logies aan het slapen. Hij merkte dat het water, in de omgekeerde boot, slechts tot aan de trap kwam en niet steeg. Hij wist niet op zijn signalen gehoord werden en heeft eerst gepoogd het logies te verlaten, door een verkeerd oriëntatiegevoel is hij evenwel gekneld geraakt tussen de tafel en de stoelen…hij is wel nog terug in het logies geraakt, waar een grote luchtbel was. Hij heeft een helikopter gehoord en is terug beginnen klopsignalen geven. Die werden beantwoord en hij hoorde duikers roepen dat hij zich zo kalm mogelijk moest houden om geen zuurstof te verspillen. Na ongeveer 2 uur merkte hij beweging op van het wateroppervlak in de keuken en zag hij door het water een lichtstraal. Hij woelde met zijn armen in het water om aandacht van de duiker te trekken, die dan ook tot bij hem raakte. De duiker probeerde Andries mee te nemen, maar ongeveer halverwege is deze in paniek geraakt, heeft de duiker gelost en is terug naar het logies gezwommen. Ongeveer een uur later was de duiker terug met een duikbril en een zuurstoffles. Beiden zijn er dan in geslaagd het schip te verlaten. Zij werden aan boord van een Nederlands marineschip gebracht. Andries werd later door een helikopter van Koksijde overgebracht naar het A.Z. St.-Jan te Brugge. Hij was licht gewond en in diepe shock. Hij had vijf uur doorgebracht in het gekapseizde schip, zonder te weten of hij gered zou worden. Nota: De Raad (Onderzoeksraad voor de zeevaart) drukte zijn waardering en erkentelijkheid uit voor het optreden van de bemanning van de helikopters van de basis van Koksijde en van de duikers van de Nederlandse marine, meer specifiek de heer Waldo Buys, die, in zéér moeilijke omstandigheden, erin geslaagd is om matroos Paul Andries uit het gekapseisde wrak te bevrijden. Bron: ’75 jaar onderzoeksraad voor de zeevaart’ | |
| Nagara SS | [Tony Allen:]Nagara SS. Belonged to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Cpy. Built:1918 Vessel was 8803 tons. 1943 torpedoed and sunk off Lands End, Cornwall. | |
| Nailsea Court SS | [Tony Allen:]Nailsea Court was a 3.295grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship. On the 19 January 1917 when 32 miles W from the Skelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Naranco SS | [Diving Sussex:]Naranco SS; Built in 1920; 984 ton; Spanish steamer triple expansion engines; Sunk: 23rd August 1959 in collision with the MV Goldstone in fog another steamer. | |
| Narborough HMS | [Tony Allen:]Narborough HMS, British M Class Destroyer. Wrecked near Scapa Flow in a snow storm. | |
| Narragansett SS | [Tony Allen:]Narragansett was a 9.196grt defensively-armed Britsih Merchant ship. On the 16th March 1917 when off SW Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 46 lives lost including Master. | |
| Narva | [Tony Allen:]Narva; 1.991 tons; 257x 41 ft; Built in 1943 as the ALETTA NOOT, for F.Haniel & Co, Duisburg. In 1945 she was seized by Allies at Flensburg and renamed the EMPIRE CONFERENCE and requisioned as MOWT. In 1946 she was NARVA, and purchased by Glen & Co, Glasgow. on the 22.12.57 she foundered at 57°28N 03°00E with all hands. | |
| Natal HMS | [Other Source]HMS Natal, British, Warrior class Armoured Cruiser, blew up and sank at her moorings in the Cromarty Firth, Scotland. Over 400 lives lost. The cause was speculated about at the time and there were conspiracy theories; sabotage was feared by some but the official enquiry put it down to a cordite explosion. This material becomes unstable when overheated. Other ships had suffered a similar fate, and this is the most likely explanation. [Willy Geens:]vier schepen: cochrane / achilles / natal / warrior; omschrijving:pantserkruis; gewicht: 15230 t; afmetingen: lengte 154.4 m breedte 22.4 m bewapening:6 x 234 m; 4 x 190 mm;24 x 47 m;4 x 7.7 mm; torpedolanceerbuizen:3 x 450 mm voortstuwing: twee schroefassen apk:23500 brandstofvoorraad:kolen max.2050;olie 600 t snelheid:22.33 knop; bemanning:704; einde: cochrane 14 nov 1918 total loss; achilles 9 mei 1921 gesloopt; natal na explosie gezonk; warrior 1 juni 1916 vergaan | |
| Navarra | [Tony Allen:]Navarra. Manager: Fearnley & Eger, Oslo; Tonnage: 2.118 gt; Built in Sunderland 1921 (Rohwer says Navarra was built in 1920); Captain: Lorentz Ø. Tangen; Navarra is mentioned in connection with Convoy HN 10B from Norway to the U.K. in Febr.-1940, bound for Liverpool in ballast. Towards the end of March-1940 (just a couple of weeks before Norway was invaded), we find her in Convoy HN 21, bound for Swansea in ballast - follow links for more convoy info; several Norwegian ships took part in both these convoys. Final Fate - 1940 (Neutral): Torpedoed on April 6th 1940 by U-59 (Jürst), sunk 59N 04W, when on a voyage from Swansea to Oslo with a cargo of coal. 12 died (1 of whom was a passenger) out of the 26 on board. | |
| Necton | [Dirk Eekelers:]Bouwjaar:1956;Roepnaam:PGDG; Rederij:J. Hesseling, Groningen. l.l.:/l.o.a.:42,95m.45,08m; b.:7,63m.; h.:2,55m.Brt:350 Nrt:175; Dwt: 408 ; motor: 225Pk 4 tew do 4 cil MaK diesel. Bouwnr: 945; Geb. bij: Gutehoffnungshutte, Rheinwerft, Te w.: 03-07-1956 Walsum. Oplev.:25-08-1956. Op 31-01-1963, 6 mijl van Hoek van Holland lekgeslagen en gezonken. Schip was onderweg met een lading graan van Norwich naar Rotterdam. [G.B. Kramer:]Dit is een foto van de Necton die nu op de zeebodem ligt. Ik heb hierop gevaren tot hij helaas naar de diepte ging. De dincky heeft ons leven gered. Mijn broer was kapitein op de Necton. Foto uit www.antiquariaat-hollandia.nl | |
| Nederland II SS | [Didier De Waele:]Nederland II SS, built scheepswerf Jan Smit & Zn, Alblasserdam, 1,832 tons, 82,73x12,39x6,27m, triple exp eng, 1250 ihp, 10 knots, built 1913. Owner:Nederlandse stoomvaartmaatschappij, Rotterdam. On 21st November 1917, while en voyage from Rotterdam to Leith with general cargo, she was sunk by U-53, 9 miles NW from lightship Noordhinder, together with Megrez. All crew survived. | |
| Negro HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Negro, British, M class Destroyer. Whilst operating with the Grand Fleet HMS Hoste developed engine trouble and had to return to Scapa Flow with HMS Negro as escort. During the journey the two ships collided and two depth charges rolled off HMS Hoste and exploded removing her stern and damaging HMS Negro so both ships sank. | |
| Neion SS | [Tony Allen:]Neion was built in 1918 and formerly called MONT GENEVRE (1934). She was owned by STATHATOS & CO LTD. ANASTASIOS DENIS CALLINICOS and was on route from NEW ORLEANS & ST NAZAIRE for FALMOUTH when she was torpedoed by U-38 and sunk. She was carrying a crgo of barrels of naptha on deck and also some lead. One crew missing. | |
| Neotsfield SS | [Tony Allen:]Neotsfield SS grossed 3821 tons. Dimensions:340x47.1x27.4 feet. Powered: 3 cyclinder triple expansion engine giving 317HP. She was fitted with a 4"" stern gun. Torpedoed by UB-64 whilst on route from the Clyde to Naples carrying 4158 tons of coal and 808 tons of coke. | |
| Nepaul SS | [Tony Allen:]This P&O Liner ran aground when she was homeward bound from Calcultta to London. Hit the Shagstone on a dark evening ripping out the bottom of the vessel. | |
| Neptunia | [Tony Allen:]Neptunia was a greek merchantship. She foundered on Daunts Rock, Ireland whilst on route from Boston to Bremen and was a total loss. 0 lives lost. | |
| Neptunia SS | [Tony Allen:]Neptunia was a British Ocean Steam Tug built in 1938 and on route from FALMOUTH for salvage work in the Atlantic, when she was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire by U-29. | |
| Nereid | [Tony Allen:]Nereid was 775 tons. Dimensions: 208.9x29.2x17.2 feet. Sank after collision with the barque Killochan. Both vessels sank. 6 crew dead. | |
| Nerissa SS | Canadian 5,583 ton passenger vessel built in Scotland in 1926 for the Johnston-Warren Line. Engaged on the New York-Burmuda run before the war, in 1939 chartered from Bermuda & West Indies SS Co she was pressed into service as a troop carrier and was sunk off Inistrahull, Ireland, while en-route from Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England. Carrying 175 passengers, mostly Canadian Army personnel, the ship sank with the loss of 124 passengers and 83 crewmembers. Survivors were picked up by the destroyer HMS Veteran and eventually landed at Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Nerissa SS was torpedoed by U-552, Cpt. Erich Topp | |
| Nestor HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Nestor, British, M class Destroyer. Lost in the battle of Jutland. | |
| Nestorian SS | [Tony Allen:]Nestorian SS was built in 1911 by Leslie Hawthord & Co Ltd of Newcastle upon Tyne and was owned F Leyland. Dimensions were 122.04x15.97x10.66metres. She was powered by a four cylinder quadruple expansion steam engine which generated 510 hp. On route from Galveston, USA fro Liverpool with a cargo of cotton & steel ignots and empty shell heads. 79 crew rescue and one died when he fell from the rigging. | |
| Neuquen SS | [Tony Allen:]Neuquen was a 3.583grt Britsih Merchantship. On the 20 January 1917 whe 20 miles NW by W from the Skelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland she was captured by submarine, sunk by torpedo. 18 lives lost including Master. | |
| Neutron MV | [Chris Van Buul:]Neutron MV by Bodewes, Martensbroek for fam. Beck, Groningen was a Dutch trawler, sunk in collision with a wreck near to Zeebrugge. The crew was saved. | |
| Nevada II | [Tony Allen:]Vessel was 3.499 tons and 420.2 feet in length. | |
| New Dawn | [Tony Allen:]New Dawn. British Admiralty drifter sunk by a mine 23rd March 1918. | |
| Newcastle SS | [Diving Sussex:]3403 ton British Steamer, sunk on 10th October 1915 when hitting a mine. | |
| Newholm SS | [HSAC:]3.399 ton British steamer, built 1899. 330ftx48ft. 293hp triple-expansion engines. Iron ore, Bilbao to Middlesbrough. Sunk: 8 September, 1917, back broken when hit German minefield. Twenty of crew of 29 killed. | |
| Nicola Virginia | [Tony Allen:]Nicola Virginia, carrying grain, sank in 1946 in fog. | |
| Niedersachsen | [Michael Tolhuisen]Heavily damaged coaster, 24m depth. Probably a requisisioned ship during WWII by the Germans. [Vince Hoffman:] De Niedersachsen is de V2009 gezonken op 25/08/44. Hij werd getorpedeerd door een Britse MTB. | |
| Nieuwland SS | [Didier De Waele:]Nieuwland SS, NV Scheepswerf Jan Smit, Alblasserdam for Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Mij; 1920; 1.075 grt; 66,13 x 9,90 x 4,42m; Triple expansion engines; On September 4th 1940, Waterland SS, was torpedoed by Germen motor torpedo boat S-18, while in escort from Sunderland to London with a cargo of coals. 8 crew died. See second picture for the Nieuwland SS being towed by a tug when she ran aground January 28th 1928, near Ostend. | |
| Niger HMS | [Tony Allen:]Niger HMS was sunk by a U-boat of Deal, Kent. | |
| Nimrod MV | Cargo shifted in strong winds, abandonned by crew. | |
| Nimrod SS | [Tony Allen:]Nimrod SS was a paddle steamer from Ireland, 583 tons 177 feet long and 25 feet wide. Sank in 1860 NE of St David's Head in depths of between 18m and 32m. Forty five people were killed, unable to climb the cliffs to safety. The Captain had previously declined help from a passing ship, thinking she would be able to cope. | |
| Nina Borthen | [Tony Allen:]Nina Borthen. Built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Newcastle 1930. Nina Borthen left Milford Haven on September 30th 1940 in convoy for Table Bay - Persian Gulf, and disappeared, the only trace being a lifeboat which was washed ashore near Dunmore, Ireland on Dec. 19. The convoy was dispersed in a gale on October 5th, and since she did not reach Table Bay she was believed to have been sunk between Milford Haven and Table Bay (she only had 300 tons of bunkers, so could not have reached much further). U-103 (Schütze) sank a tanker on October 6th in position 54N 26W, which is in the area where the convoy was dispersed and where Nina Borthen would have been on her way south on her own. | |
| Ninian Paton SS | [Ernst Jongejan:]Met lading stukgoed opweg van Antwerpen naar Helsingfors | |
| Niobe | [Tony Allen:]Niobe, french transport ship bombed by aircraft when it was carrying ammunition. Sank off Dunkirk. | |
| Nippon | ''Porceleinship'' sunk in 1938 | |
| NO-11 | [Hugo Raven:]Uit gegevens van het boek ,,Tussen haak en nieuwediep"" Moet hier 52-58-017 N 04-46-767 E in E50 de stoomloodsvaartuig NO-11 liggen De NO-11 werd in dienst gesteld op 13-12-1913. Is al eerder tot zinken gebracht tijdens de gevechten in de meidagen van 1940 bij Breskens. Op 7-7-1940 weer gelicht en na reparatie in beslag genomen door de wehrmacht en als LAZ 2 ingezet; 1-1-1941 ZRD 2 16-7-1941 H 858; 1-5-1942 HI 14; 1-8-1942 V 1340; 1943 V-1417. Is tot zinken gebracht op 17-1-1945 door de Royal Air Force. | |
| NO-12 | [Hugo Raven:]Het wrak op deze positie 52-57-717 N / 04-41-350 E in E50. Moet na lang zoeken en meten en gegevens van een van de kanonnen de stoomloods vaartuig NO 12 Zijn. Gebouwd in 1914; 430 ton; 42.30 meter lang; 7.33 meter breed; 3 cilinder triple expantie stoommachine; Bewapend met 2 stuks 3.7 cm snelvuurkanonnen; 14-5-1940 duitse buit in Vlissingen, in de vaart als LAZ 1, ZRD 1, H 855; Tot zinken gebracht door de Royal Air Force op 2-8-1941 De fotos van het schip is identiek als de NO-12. | |
| Nomad HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Nomad, British, M class Destroyer. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Noordzee II SS (BV-34) | [Other Source:]The tug 'Noordzee (1892-298) from L. Smit & Co, was rebuilt twice, in 1900 and 1909, when her funnel was removed. On 26th April 1916, she was sailing from Dunkirk to Rotterdam, with the steamer Maashaven on tug, when she struck a mine near the lightship Galloper. [Andre Ruissen:] Tijdens een patrouille ter hoogte van de deurloo pikt de 'noordzee' -toen in de vaart als de BV-34 in dienst van de koninklijke marine als bewakingsvaartuig- een vlot op afkomstig van een noors schip. Na overleg besloot men dit af te geven ter hoogte van de scheidingston deurloo oostgat. Terwijl het schip gaande werd gehouden, liep het op een mijn. Bij deze ramp op 14 Mei 1940 kwamen 20 van de 21 man om in het koude water. Na 15 minuten werd de enige overlevende tweede machinist C.de Waal opgepikt door een britse torpedojager. [Frans Geijlvoet:]The story is correct, but there are two photos of Noordzee I and not of Noordzee II. | |
| Nordhuk | [Tony Allen:]Nordhuk was 1.350 tons and measured 74,8 metres. | |
| Norfalk | [Tony Allen:]Norfalk. On July 20-1944, while in a convoy 7 n. miles south of Barfleur, Norfalk struck a mine and sank when en route to Normandy to be used as blockship during Operation Overlord. According to an excerpt from the ship's journal, she had started her voyage in Glasgow and was headed for St. Laurent, sailing as 'No. 4 in the starboard column'. When the explosion occurred she was about 1.5 miles east of Buoy No. L 3. On the bridge at the time were Captain Thoresen, the 3rd mate and the helmsman, Able Seaman Husevåg, while Able Seaman Holm was on lookout duty. Engine Room Assistant Eliassen and Stoker Olsen were in the engine room. She developed a leak in No. 5 hold, all electric lights stopped functioning and due to broken steam pipes it was impossible to get to the engine room. The main engine was stopped from the boat deck. The British trawler HMS Steepholm T-356 and the American salvage vessel Diver arrived, whereupon attemps were made to tow her the rest of the way to Normandie, but in spite of continuous pumping the water kept rising in her holds, so her crew was ordered on board Diver while crew from the salvage vessel took over. Several more attempts at towing were made but eventually given up late that afternoon and she was abondoned in a sinking condition (she sank 2 n. miles from her destination. | |
| Norfolk Coast SS | [Tony Allen:]Norfolk Coast, 782grt, defensively-armed, 18 June 1918, 23 miles SE from Flamborough Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 8 lives lost. | |
| Norhauk | [Martien Slaats:]Norhauk SS was originally called Empire Beaver. [Tony Allen:]Built under United States Shipping Board contracts (WW I) by G. M. Standifer Construction Corp., Vancouver, Wash., completed as Waban (USSB) in 1919. Design 1015; 9400 tdw, 402 ft x 53 ft. Owned by Lykes Bros-Ripley SS Co. in 1933. Purchased from USA by British Ministry of Shipping in 1940, renamed Empire Sambar. On March 6-1941 she had an explosion in engine room while at sea; towed in, repaired, and renamed Empire Beaver (M.O.W.T.) in 1942. Taken over at Mersey on April 5th 1942 and given the name Norhauk. Departed Halifax on Dec. 2-1943 in Convoy SC 148, being the Vice Commodore vessel for the convoy. Norhauk was on a voyage from St. John N. B. with 6800 tons general cargo for London, incl. about 500 tons ferro chrome in hold No. 3. In the morning of Dec. 15, SC 148 split into 2 groups, with Norhauk taking over as Commodore Vessel for the northbound group. She arrived Loch Ewe in the morning of December 16th, then joined a coastal convoy that evening, arriving Methil Roads in the afternoon of the 18th, and left again the next day in a southbound coastal convoy. On December 21st a pilot embarked at the inlet to the Thames. Around 14:38 that day, when in 51 50 03N 01 33 01E (Thames Estuary) a horrendous explosion occurred beneath the after part of hatch 3, practically severing the ship in 2 to the 'tween deck, and in a matter of seconds she sank in the middle down to the upper bridge, and was under water from hatch 1 to hatch 5. | |
| Norhilda SS | [Tony Allen:]The NORHILDA was torpedoed by UC17, at about 4:15pm on 21st August 1917. She was steaming from Harwich to the Tyne with cargo in ballast. Norhilda, 1,175grt, 21 August 1917, 5 miles SE from Scarborough, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost. | |
| Norjerv | [Tony Allen:]Norjerv; 5.775 tons; 410 x54 ft; Built in 1919 as the WEST ISLIP, for the US Shipping Board, Seattle. In 1920 she was renamed the GOLDEN ROD, and purchased by the Oceanic & Oriental Nav. Co, San Francisco. In 1934 she was renamed the WILLHILO, and purchased by Williams SS Corp, New York, USA. In 1937 she was renamed INDIANAN and purchased by the American-Hawaiian SS Corp, New York. In 1941 she was renamed EMPIRE EAGLE and requisioned as MOWT and managed by Runciman Ltd. In 1942 she was renamed NORJERV and purchased by the Norwegian Government. On the 26.6.44 she was sunk as blockship at Normandy. In 1949 she was raised but sunk in tow to scrapyard. | |
| Normandy PSS | [Tony Allen:]Normandy PSS, 550 ton iron paddle steamer sunk in collision in 1870. Lies off the Isle of Wight, English Channel. | |
| Normandy SS | [Tony Allen:]Normandy SS, a 618 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 25 January 1918, 8 miles E by N from Cape La Hague, France. | |
| Normannia | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:]Normannia, construit en 1912 par Fairfield Shipbuilding Co. Long de 88.40m, large de 11m, sa masse de 1.567 tons est emmenée à une vitesse de croisière de 19 nœuds par des turbines Parsons. Un simple réducteur, entraîne les deux hélices jumelées. Après des années de sérieux mais peu impréssionnants services au Havre, le Normannia continua à naviguer hors de Southampton quand la guerre éclata en Septembre 1939. Vers la fin du mois de mai suivant, il faisait parti d'un groupe de ferry-boats prêts à l'intervention quand l'Opération Dynamo trouva son rythme. Rapidement appelé à l'action, le Normannia quitta les côtes de Mardyck pour une première traversée le 29 Mai quand il se fit surprendre et bombarder par un vol d'Heinkel allemands (les mêmes qui coulèrent le Waverley et le Lorina la même journée) près de la bouée n°6. Il coula dans des eaux peu profondes, menant la lutte jusqu'au bout. | |
| Norne | [Tony Allen:]Built in Gothenburg 1930. In the early hours of August 30th 1940 Norne was hit by a torpedo from U-32 (Jenisch), position 58 48N 06 49W (east of Stronsay). On the bridge at the time were the captain, the 2nd mate and the helmsman, Able Seaman Mikkelborg (all perished). Following 2 explosions on the port side forward of the engine room, she sank very quickly while some crew members were trying to launch the starboard lifeboat. The boat was crushed, and everyone on deck was pulled under with the ship; only 11 came back up. | |
| Norseman SS | [Tony Allen:]Norseman SS was built in 1883 for John Fullerton & Cpy of Glasglow. Measured 120'x20'x 9,4'feet. Gross 194 tons. Powered by a two cylinder compound engine by William King & Cpy, Glasgow. Owned at the time of the loss by John M Patton, Glasgow. Carrying coal from Ayr to Magheramourne. All crew saved. | |
| North Star | NORTH STAR, british destroyer, located at the Belgian North Sea coast, 1 mile off Zeebrugge harbour - was sunk on 23rd April 1918 by German shore batteries. ''North Star'' (Lt Cdr Kenneth Helyar) was previously with the Grand Fleet flotillas, but now one of three destroyers of the Inshore Division providing close support for the ex-cruiser blockships during the Zeebrugge Raid. She sank at around 02.00hrs with the loss of 21 crew; survivors were rescued by sister-ship ''Phoebe'' | |
| Northcoates HMS | [HSAC:]277 ton trawler, built for the Royal Navy as the George Corten in 1918. Became commercial fishing trawler 1921 as Zencon. Requisitioned as Naval minesweeper 1939. 125ftx25ft. Sunk: 2 December, 1944, in heavy weather when under tow after engine failure. | |
| Northfield SS | [Tony Allen:]Northfield was a 2,099grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 3 March 1918, 25 miles SW from Lundy Island, Bristol Channel was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 15 lives lost including Master. | |
| Northfleet | [Diving Sussex:]Northfleet; 180ft Frigate sunk 22nd January 1873 in collision with the Spanish steam ship Murillo, 293 died. | |
| Northlands | [Tony Allen:]Northlands, 2,776grt, 5 April 1915, 24 miles SW from Beachy Head, captured by submarine, sunk by torpedo. | |
| Northumberland HMS | 3rd Rate- 70 gun. Wrecked in a storm on the Goodwin Sands. | |
| Northville | British steamer, 2.472 tons, 93m, sunk 1918. | |
| Northville SS | [Tony Allen:]Northville was a 2,472grt British Merchant Steamship that was defensively-armed. On the 17 February 1918 when 3½ miles SE by E from Berry Head, Devon, UK she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Northwaite SS | [Tony Allen:]Northwaite was a 3.626grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 13th March 1917 when 14 miles WNW from the Blaskets, Ireland she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Norwegian SS | [Tony Allen:]Norwegian SS; Built in 1913 by Calendon Shipbuilding & End Co Ltd of Liverpool and owned by F Leyland & Co ltd of Liverpool. Measured 122.07x15.95x10.66 metres and was 6.327T. Armed with 1x4.7'' stern gun. En-route from New York to Liverpool with a general cargo & bagged grain. Was mined by UC-43. Many salvage attempts have taken place to recover £1 million of copper ingots, bombs ,artillery and automobiles. Six crew died. | |
| Notre Dame de Lorette | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:]Commandé par l'Enseigne de Vaisseau MARTEL. Le Notre Dame De Lorette appartenait à l'armement Gournay Frères de Boulogne Sur Mer. Ce chalutier de haute mer comportait un équipage de 21 marins au minimum et disposait d'une chaudière à charbon. Son numéro était le B899, il avait été réquisitionné par l'armée anglaise pour l'évacuation des troupes de Dunkerque. Le bateau a reçu la médaille de guerre de Dunkerque et est inscrit au livre d'or de l'association des anciens combattants de Dunkerque et de l'Amicale des anciens de la marine de Dunkerque sous le numero 10854. Coulé par l'aviation allemande. | |
| Nottingham HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Nottingham, British, Birmingham class Light Cruiser. The British Grand Fleet sailed to intercept the German fleet and crossed a German submarine line. U-52 torpedoed Nottingham off Flamborough Head, scoring two hits with the initial attack and a further hit later to finisher her off. During the same operation HMS Falmouth was hit by two torpedoes from U-66 but the damaged cruiser stayed afloat and was making it back to port when she was torpedoed again, this time by U-52 off Flamborough Head. | |
| Novasli | [Tony Allen:]Novasli. Built in Sunderland 1920. Previous names: Ronalee until 1922, Maplewood until 1929. Novasli had taken on board 1123 standards of lumber in Philadelphia, then left Febr. 7-1945 for Halifax N.S., arriving Febr. 14. Departed Halifax on Febr. 16 for Swansea Bay and London in Convoy SC 167, station 31. On March 2nd she had reached St. Georges Channel, and was just off Milford Haven when she was torpedoed in the stern by (possibly) U-1302 (Herwatz), 52 04N 05 42W. The rudder and propeller were blown away, she had a crack behind midships on both sides from the gunwhale and as far down as they could see, with an opening of about 1' wide from the rail and down, and water gushed into the engine room. | |
| Novocastrian SS | [Tony Allen:]Novocastrian was mined and sunk 3½ miles SE by East from Lowestoft, United Kingdom. | |
| Nubian HMS | Tribal Class Royal Navy destroyer. As part of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla she was chasing some German destroyers in the English Channel, which were challenged. The German ships opened fire and passed very close. Commander M R Bernard, RN, in command of Nubian, tried to turn to ram the last ship in the German line but was hit by a torpedo which destroyed the fore part of the ship. She was later taken in tow by HMS Lark but this parted and she drifted ashore at South Foreland, St Margaret's Bay. | |
| Nunima SS | [Diving Sussex:]Nunima SS; 2.938 ton steamer, triple expansion engines sank in collision on 4th January 1918. | |
| Nurgis SS | [Tony Allen:]Nurgis SS. Delivered in Jan-1919 from J. Meyer Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Leeuwen, the Netherlands as Oranjepolden (Oranjepolder?) to Algemene Nederlandsche Scheepsvaar Maatschappij, Rotterdam. 181.4' x 28.3' x 12.7', triple exp. Purchased by D/S A/S Nurgis (Karl M. Thuestad), Haugesund in 1929, renamed Nurgis. Attacked by 2 German aircraft on March 8th 1941, 7 n. miles off Lizard, on a voyage from Swansea to Southampton with 815 tons bricks, having departed Swansea the previous day. The machine gun fire destroyed her starboard Hotchkiss gun, but the 2nd mate returned the fire with the port gun, until it got jammed and had to be given up. The first aircraft dropped 2 bombs which detonated close to the ship, causing a steam pipe to the boiler to break, and destroying the port lifeboat. She developed a list to port and those on board started to lower the starboard lifeboat under continuous machine gun fire. The 2nd aircraft also dropped 2 bombs which exploded close to the ship's side and she started to sink. The lifeboat was launched, but while doing so Able Seaman Osberg and Stoker Helmersen were shot and injured. One of the aircraft returned and dropped another 2 bombs, but they did not explode. | |
| Nurnburg | German light cruiser, veteran of Scapa Flow, sunk by the British to test their guns against its armour plating. | |
| Nyon | Nyon, 5.364 Swiss Motor ship; Sunk: 15th June 1962 in collision with the 6.199 ton Indian Jalazad. | |
| O.A.Brodin SS | [Tony Allen:]O.A.BRODIN was formerly called ERATO in 1935. She was built in 1921 and owned by BRODIN, ERIK O,. REDARI-A/B KARE. When on route from BURLINGTON N.F and ST JOHNS N.F for RIDHAM DOCK via KIRKWELL with a cargo of 2765 tons pulpwood she was torpedoed by U-57 and sunk. 3 crew lost from a total crew 24. | |
| O-137 St Therese de Jezus | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:] Tonnenmaat: 15,78 netto en 64,56 bruto ton; Bouwjaar:1929; Materiaal:hout; Motor:Deutz van 150 PK; Eigenaar: Lambrecht Emiel. Het schip was 30/12/1953 uit Oostende vertrokken en door het slechte weer gaan schuilen in Calais, op 4 januari 1954 werd koers gezet naar Oostende – wind N.E.t.E., redelijke bries en nogal veel zwel. Op 5 januari 1954 er wissel van de wacht en kwamen Schipper Haelewyck en zijn zoon Robert de wacht op. Hoewel ze goed de pas van Duinkerke kenden namen ze omstreeks 07:00u een lichte wrijving onder de kiel gewaar. Het schip is onmiddellijk over de achtersteven water beginnen maken. Na problemen met de reddingssloep konden matrozen Houcke, Haelewyck en Lambrecht in de boot springen. De motorist Vanslembrouck maakte de reddinsboot vast aan het achterschip, maar moest die verbinding loslaten. Matroos Lambrecht zag na het overkomen van een zware zee dat hij nog alleen in de sloep zat. Hij werd later opgepikt door de pakketboot. [Other source:] Belgian trawler, built in 1929, by A. Hillebrandt & zonen for Emiel Lambrecht; 64,56 tons; T Motor Deutz 150 hp. Sunk 5th January 1954, after hitting Middelkerkebank in heavy weather. Only one of the 5 crew survived. | |
| O-196 Irene Robert | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]O-196, Irene Robert was fishing and when lifting up her nets, when an explosion caused her to take lots of seawater. An attempt was made to save her by 0-142 to tug her, but the tug snapped and O-196 sunk. An investigation revealed that it couldn't have been a mine that caused the explosion. Most probably it was a shell from a plane. | |
| O-312 Angelus | [Gert-Jan Bisschop 2004:] O-312 - ANGELUS is vergaan op 21/06/1975 na brand in positie 51°50’N en 01°49’E. Geen doden. De O-312 had op 10/06/1975 de haven van Oostende verlaten om te vissen op de visgronden van de noord. Op 21 juni 1975 merkte de wacht op dat er rook uit de luchtkoker van de machinekamer kwam. Er werd geprobeerd te blussen, maar dit lukte niet, ook niet na interventie van de Britse zandzuiger ‘Sand Serin’. De bemanning is op de Sand Serin overgestapt en er werd nog gepoogd verder te blussen en het schip op sleeptouw te nemen tot in Harwich. Dit is niet meer gelukt en het schip is gedeeltelijk brandend gezonken. De bemanning is aan boord van de zandzuiger gebleven tot ze op 22/06/1975 te Zeebrugge aan land werden gebracht. Tonnenmaat: 35,08 netto en 93,71 bruto ton; Bouwjaar: 1947; Materiaal: hout; Motor: A.B.C. van 375 PK; Eigenaar: Kamiel Schram en Johnny Daems | |
| O-64 Leo Jean | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]The O-64 had sailed from Oostende on 02/06/1966 and was bound to go fishing for shrimps at the Stroombankboei West. The captain had seen that another vessel O-718 ‘Yves Patrick’ was fishing in the neighbourhood. When manoeuvring towards the O-718 the captain noticed that the rudder-chain was blocked. He attempted to move backwards, but a collision could not be avoided. The O-64 hit (with her bow) the O-718 at her bow on portside. Both fishermen could escape onto the O-718. The Leo Jean sank shortly after. It was low water at that time and the foremast could be seen 1 meter above the waterlevel. The ship sank about 1.000m out of the coast (approximately in the vicinity of Hotel ‘Alpha’. Source: ’75 jaar onderzoeksraad voor de zeevaart’ | |
| O-73 Renilde | [Philippe Mahieu:] Formerly known as ?51°18 783N-02°56 925E on the wrecksite | |
| O-76 Noordstaer | [Didier De Waele:] O-76 Noordstaer; wooden fishing vessel; 1942 by Van Dycke, Koolkerke for Goderis Germaine; Net 3,7 tons; Gross 9,8 tons; 34hp; Lost due to a fire, probably in the engine room. | |
| O-807 Maurice | Oostendse vissersboot op 9 november 1977 gekapseizd. | |
| O-818 Lucie Jenny II | Wooden small fishing ship; built 1945; by Vinck in Boom; 10.15 tons Net; 32.85 tons gross; 115 hp; No injuries; | |
| O-82 Mariner | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]Op de terugreis van de Liverpoolbaai is het schip in een W-storm kracht 9 terechtgekomen, later storm 10- het achterschip kwam steeds dieper te liggen en na onderzoek werd geprobeerd het schip met de kop in de wind te leggen. Bij een maoeuver over stuurboord is de O.82 beginnen overhellen over bakboord.. De schipper heeft tijdig alarm geslagen en het reddingsvlot werd overboord gezet. De bemanning is in het vlot geraakt. De ferry ‘Free Enterprise VI’ is bij het wrak gebleven totdat een helikopter van de basis Koksijde de bemanning heeft opgepikt en veilig aan land heeft gebracht. [Other Source:]This fishingship was built in 1969 and launched on March 27th 1970. The vessel was 29 meters long and 7 meters wide. The displacement was 45 tons. The ship was powered by a 500 HP engine. On December 17th 1979, the ship sank in a heavy storm. It was on the way home after a fishingtrip of three weeks. | |
| O-82 St Antoine | [Gert-Jan Bisschop:]Het schip was op 28 juli 1992 s’avonds uitgevaren om de kustvisserij te bedrijven. Dat gebeurde tussen de Middelkerkebank N.boei en de loodskruispost, ongeveer 12 mijl uit de kust. Het weer was ideaal. In de vroege morgen van 29 juli 1992, omstreeks 03.30u werd bij het winden van de netten, met de beide bokken 45° getopt, vastgesteld dat er veel stenen en zand in de netten zaten. Het stuurboordnet was zwaarder. Het stuurboordnet werd eerst gewonden, waarbij het schip direct zwaar over stuurboord is beginnen hellen, in die mate dat er water in het schip liep en de bakboordboel op een moment ook is beginnen overhellen. Het schip is zeer vlug gekapseisd. Matrozen Ryckman, Santens en lichtmatroos Pauwaert, die aan dek stonden, zijn in het water terechtgekomen. Gezien het schip omgekeerd bleef drijven zijn ze op de kiel kunnen klimmen. Pas na enige tijd, toen het licht werd, werden ze door een loodsboot opgemerkt, die hen ontzet heeft. Van de schipper was er toen geen spoor en duikers van de Zeemacht werden met een helikopter ter plaatse gedropt en ook de omgeving werd afgezocht, maar zonder resultaat. Na 6 uur werd de zoekactie gestaakt. Het stoffelijk overschot van de schipper werd, 16 dagen na de feiten, ter hoogte van Nieuwpoort op zee geborgen. Het schip is drie dagen later gelicht en overgebracht naar Oostende. Mogelijks resten op bovenvermelde positie | |
| Oakby SS | [Tony Allen:]Oakby was 1,976grt and built in 1897 by Ropner & Son, Stockton who owned the vessel. On the 23rd February 1915, when 4 miles E by N from the Royal Sovereign Light Vessel, English Channel she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-8 without warning and sunk. | |
| Obdam | [Tony Allen:]Obdam, Built in 1889 and commandeered as a troopship in the WW1. Torpedoed 10 miles west of Newquay,Cornwall. | |
| Oceaan (de) | [Dirk de Hek:]Naar mijn weten gaat het hier om het schip de Oceaan van rederij Doeksen. Deze stoomsleepboot is in de mei dagen van de tweede wereldoorlog door eigen bemanning tot zinken gebracht. Deed als bewakingsvaartuig B 4 dienst voor de Nederlandse Marine. | |
| Ocean Monarch SS | [Tony Allen:]Ocean Monarch SS was a wooden American passenger liner, built in 1843 by Shipyard Donald McKay. | |
| Ocean Sunlight HMS | 131 ton Drifter. Sunk: 13th June 1940 800yds out from Newhaven harbour. | |
| Oceana SS | 6.610 ton P&O Linner, Built 1888, 468ftx52ft , 7000hp triple expansion engines. Cargo: General plus £7 P&O passenger ship, came into collision with the steel 4 mast barque Pisagna, which made her sink. Pisagna herself was towed into Dover. A vast amount of silver inglots and gold coins was present at the time of sinking. The ship was salvaged, but some silver has been reported as missing 47.110 worth of gold and silver ingots, 40 passengers, 210 crew, London to Bombay. Sunk: 16 march 1912, In collision with Pisagua, 2850 ton . Nine Oceana drowned when lifeboat capsized. HSAC : 6610 ton P&O liner, built 1888. 468ftx52ft. 7000hp triple expansion engines. General, plus 747,110 worth of gold and silver ingots. 40 passengers, 210 crew, London to Bombay. Sunk: 16 March, 1912, in collision with Pisagua, 2850 ton German four-masted steel barque. Nine from Oceana drowned when lifeboat capsized. All except a few ingots recovered in immediate diving salvage. | |
| Oceanic SS | [Tony Allen:]Oceanic SS, 17.274 grt, Length: 704.0 ft. Beam: 68.6 ft. Draught: 44.6 ft was sunkon 08-09-1914 | |
| OD-18 Adriana | [Hans Van Der Weide:]built as the ''Zijpe'' for W. Otte from Bruinisse in 1936., she was sold in 1954 to J.E. Fransen from Ruinen. In 1958 she was renamed Adriana and rebuilt for leisure fishing. Latest skipper/owner: B. Stulp. Motor: 150pk Deutz. The Adriana sunk after a collision with fishing ship Johanna OD-18 from Ouddorp. At the time of collision, Adriana was at anchor and fishing, when OD-18 struck her midships. The skipper tried to save his ship and steamed direction land. After 1/2 hour she was tilting do heavily that it was transfer all men on the OD-18. One hour after the collision, Adriana sunk. | |
| Oder | [Hans Zuidema:]De oder werd in de stormvloednacht van februari 1953 verloren door een sleepboot | |
| Ogono SS | Sank after collision with tug ''Kings Cross'' vessel owned by ''Compania Naviera Bidossoa''; was build in 1894 carried a load of iron... | |
| Olambala | [Tony Allen:]Olambala was the former Italian vessel Antonietta. Sank off Normandy. | |
| Olanda SS | [Didier De Waele:]Olanda SS; Wm Cray & Co, West-Hartlepool; 2,138 tons; 88,45x12,85x6,36m; triple exp engine; for NV Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Mij, later bought by NV Nederlandse Lloyd Rotterdam, sunk by a mine April 18th, 1915, while en route from Seaham to Rotterdam with a cargo of coals, 30 miles east of lightship Outerdowning. | |
| Onderzeëer | [Martien Slaats] Unidentified submarine. | |
| Oorlogschip | [Aad Kleijn:] Het wrak in pos: 52-03.493N 04-04.131E is een type oorlogschip, niet te verwarren met de Sperrbrecher-147 die wat zuidelijker ligt. | |
| Oost Vlaanderen | Small steamer bombed and sunk on 23/05/1943 by the R.A.F. | |
| Ootmarsum SS | [Didier De Waele:] Ootmarsum; Cargo; 1900; built by Wm. Gray & Co Ltd., West-Hartlepool for NV stoomvaartmij Oostzee, Amsterdam. 2313 grt; 85,78x12,95x5,79; Triple expansion engine; 1308 hp; 10 knots; Captured 17th February 1917 while en route from Penarth to Las Palmas by UC-66 and sunk with explosives, together with Trompenberg and Driebergen | |
| Oregon | 800 ton steel sailing ship, sunk December 1890 when she was caught by onshore winds. She hit the a rocky reef called the Books, close to Thurlestone Rock. | |
| Orfordness SS | [Tony Allen:]Orfordness, 2,790grt, defensively-armed British Merchantman on the 20 July 1918 was torpedoed and sunk 2½ miles W by N from Newquay, Cornwall, UK. 2 lives lost. | |
| Oria SS | [Tony Allen:]Oria SS was sunk at the entrance to Holyhead Harbour, Anglesey. | |
| Oriflamme SS | [Jan Lettens:]Early steel steam tanker, 336ft and 3.764 tons. Sunk: Hit mine in 1917. [Tony Allen:]Oriflamme was a 3,764grt, defensively-armed Merchantship. On the 25 November 1917 when 9 miles South from Nab LV, she hit a mine and sank. | |
| Orontes | Stalen zeilschip van 1.383 ton, gebouwd in 1881 op de werf W. Hood & Co. te Aberdeen voor reders G. Thompson & Co. uit Londen. Afmetingen : 71,56 m x11 mx6,85 m. Op 23 oktober 1903 gezonken voor Oostende door aanvaring met de stoomsleepboot OCEANA uit Londen. Bemanningsleden: 26. Captain: J.C. Kerr. Reis: Calete Coloso, Chili – Oostend met lading nitraten (transporten van nitraten met zeilschepen kwamen toen veel voor) Hier hebben we te maken met zo’n geval waar we zelfs de ‘historische bronnen’ niet als ‘evangelie’ mogen aanvaarden. In de Belgische zeeverslagen van die tijd vinden we ‘gezonken voor Oostende’; volgens Lloyds Register of Losses zou de ORONTES gezonken liggen op 2 mijl oost van het lichtschip SOUTH GOODWIN. En wat blijkt? In 1999 duikt een Belgische sportduiker in de ondiepten van de Out-Ruytingen Bank tussen de restanten van een groot stalen zeilschip dat hij dateert als afkomstig uit het eind van de 19° eeuw. Het geluk lacht hem – zoals gewoonlijk – toe en hij vindt er de koperen ‘boss’ van het stuurwiel, met het opschrift: WALTER HOOD & CO., ABERDEEN SHIPBUILDERS. De duiker is weer een stuk koper rijker en het raadsel is daarmee ontsluierd. | |
| Oropesa SS | [Tony Allen:]Oropesa, Cpt. Croft, was a merchantship of 14.118 tons and owned by the PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION CO LTD. She was carrying about 8.252 tons copper, maize and general stores when she was torpedoed by U-96, Cpt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock and sunk. She was on route from MOMBASA for U.K and 106 crew were lost. | |
| Oslofjord | [HSAC:]18.673 ton five-deck trans-Atlantic passenger liner, able to carry 860 passengers and 310 crew, built 1938. Oil engines. 590ftx73ft. In ballast after refit as troopship, Liverpool to Newcastle. Sunk: 1 December, 1940, when back broken by German acoustic mine, beached close to Tynemouth. | |
| Osprey USS (AM-56) | [Tony Allen:]Osprey USS (AM-56). Sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 5 June 1944. | |
| Oswestry SS | [Tony Allen:]Oswestry SS, built 1888 by Furness Withy of Hartlepool for Siveright Bacon & Co. Was powered by a two cylinder compound steam engine. Bound Newport News for Norfolk with a cargo of cotton, deal, copper ignots, iron plates, bars and indian corn. She ran aground on a small pinnacle on the north side of Mizen Head, Co Cork Ireland. | |
| Otis Tarda SS | Martien Slaats:]SS HOLLANDER 1911-1916 vracht-passagierschip pbon gebouwd 1884. nederlandsche stoomboot mij., rotterdam (130) 759brt 464nrt 1.000dwt 61.30 x 8,46 x 4.75 200 ton bunkers 7.5 kn 3-vuurs schotse ketel; 411 x 315, v.o 125m2 6.68 kg., de werf 320 ipk. 1884 opgeleverd als HOLLANDER aan smith & co rotterdam. 1906 over naar scheepvaart mij,v/h smith & co rotterdam onder de zelfde naam. 1895 nieuwe ketels geplaatst, v.o.138m 3,7,24 kg; 1911 verkocht aan nederlandsche stoomboot mij rotterdam. 1916 verkocht aan n.v.hudig & pieters algemeene scheepvaart mij, rotterdam herdoopt OTIS TARDA. 1916 nieuwe 3-vuurs schotse ketel geplaatst, v.o.150:104m 2,9 kg n.v.machinefabriek v/h b.wilton, rotterdam. 21-6-1916 tijdens een reis van rotterdam naar goole geladen met stukgoed op een mijn gelopen ten oosten van alderbro op 11 mijl ten zuidwesten van newarp lichtschip,gezonken in positie 52,38nb en 02,10ol de mijn was gelegd door de duitse onderzeeer UC-6 de vorige dag de bemanning kon aan boort stappen van de SS GELDERLAND 1,877 brt en te Yarmouth aan wal gezet worden | |
| Otis Tetrax SS | [Tony Allen:]Otis Tetrax was 996grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 20 August 1918, 28 miles S ¼ E from Flamborough Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Otranto HMS | [HSAC:]12.124 ton liner, built 1909, converted by RN to merchant cruiser in 1914. 535ftx64ft. 12,000hp quadruple expansion engines. Nine 6in guns. Cargo: 665 US troops and equipment, Halifax, Nova Scotia for Glasgow. HMS Otranto was a First World War Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser which was present at the Battle of Coronel. She was one of only two British ships present to survive, the other being HMS Glasgow. She was sunk 6th October, 1918 in collision with liner Kashmir in same convoy during Force 11 gale. Broke up after grounding off Isle of Islay, Scotland. 431 drowned. | |
| Ottar Jarl SS | Sank following a collision with the SS British Princess. Cargo: coals | |
| Otterpool SS | [Tony Allen:]Otterpool was a British Steam Cargo vessel built in 1926 and was owned by ROPNER & CO LTD, SIR R. POOL SHIPPING CO LTD. She was on route from BONA for the TEES carrying a cargo of 8180 tons iron ore when she was torpedoed by U-30. 22 crew & 1 gunner lost from a total 38 crew. | |
| Otto | [Pauline Brenninkmeijer:]Op zondag 25 januari 1903 voer kapitein Morel met zijn Zweedse stoomschip “de Otto” vanuit Gothenburg richting Manchester met een grote lading graniet aan boord. Het was zwaar weer en voor de kust van Terschelling kwam het schip tot zinken. De kapitein en de stuurman kwamen daarbij om. De andere 19 opvarenden ( waaronder 2 vrouwen) werden gered en op Terschelling aan land gebracht. In 2003 en 2004 heeft de Israëlisch-Marokkaanse kunstenaar Yaël Artsi een periode met een aantal van de 33 blokken graniet gewerkt. Hieruit is het beeld “Bolder” voortgekomen en een gedeelte van het beeld “Zeilen”. Het plan is om te komen tot een kunstwerk, bestaande uit drie monumentale sculpturen, dat op een prominente locatie op het eiland wordt geplaatst. | |
| Ottoland SS | [Didier De Waele:]Ottoland SS; Scheepvaart en Steenkolen Mij (SSM) Rotterdam; Ottoland SS, capt G. Tigchelaar, was in convoy to Humber on the East coast of England, when she ran on a mine October 5th 1940. She stayed afloat for 9 hours. The crew escaped in a dinghy and was saved by British paddlesteamer Glenn Gower, before she sank; | |
| Oxley HMS | This submarine was not only the first RN warship to be lost in the war which had begun only a week before, but was a victim of 'friendly fire'. She had strayed into the patrol area, in the Norwegian Sea, off Obrestad, of another RN submarine, Triton, which was travelling on the surface. Triton challenged the submarine she had sighted three times, the first two were by signal lamp, but no signal was returned, and she accordingly attacked. There were only two survivors. Blame lay with the lookouts and the Officer of the Watch on Oxley who didn't call their Co to the bridge until the third challenge was seen. This was a rifle grenade, but it was too late and nothing could be done. The CO of Triton was cleared of any blame. | |
| P-12 HMS | [HSAC:]613 ton Royal Navy patrol boat, built 1915. 244ftx23ft. 3500hp twin steam turbines. Armed. On patrol from Portsmouth. Sunk: 4 November, 1918, after being cut in half in collision. | |
| P-26 HMS | British patrol boat, sunk on a mine on 10th April 1917. She was launched on 22nd December 1915. | |
| P-555 USS | [HSAC:]1.062 ton US Navy submarine, formerly S-24, built 1922. 219 ftx21 ft. Armed with four 21in bow torpedo tubes, 12 torpedoes and one 3in AA gun. Lease-lend to Royal Navy 1942. Sunk: 25 August, 1947 by Royal Navy as ASDIC target after US Navy decided it did not want her returned. | |
| Pacific HMS | Cargo of coals. | |
| Pacific Ranger | [Tony Allen:]Pacific ranger was a British Motor Cargo Vessel built in 1929 and owned by FURNESS, WITHY & CO LTD. She was on route from SEATTLE for MANCHESTER carrying a cargo of 8235 tons lumber, metals and general cargo when she was torpedoed by U-59 and sunk. All 53 crew were saved. | |
| Pacific Reliance | [Tony Allen:]Pacific Reliance was a British Motor Cargo vessel built in 1927 and owned by FURNESS, WITHY & CO LTD. NORFOLK & NORTH AMERICAN STEAM SHIP. She was on route from NEW WESTMINSTER.LOS ANGELES,HALIFAX & LONDON for LIVERPOOL carrying general cargo and aircraft parts when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-29. The crew of 53 were all saved. | |
| Pacifico | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:]Construit en: 1905, tonnage: 677, longueur: 64m, largeur: 10m. Construit sous le nom de ''Princess Helena'', pour servir de cargo côtier pour la compagnie ''M. Langlands and Sons''. Il devint ''Moray Coast'' en 1919, lorsque sa compagnie de Glasgow est englobée par la compagnie ''Coast Lines''. Il fut possédé par d'autres personnes de 1935 à 1938, et il prit successivement les noms de: ''Olga'', ''Olga S.'', et ''Caper''. En 1938, il devient ''Pacifico'' lorsqu'il est acheté par la compagnie ''Alcyon Shipping'' de Londres. En octobre 1939, il tombe sous le contrôle de son amirauté. Il coula le 4 Juin 1940 pour servir au blocus du port de Dunkerque (les autres navires choisis étaient: le ''Edvard Nissen'', le ''Moyle'', le ''Gourko'', le ''Holland'' et le ''?'' ). | |
| Pagenturm SS | [Tony Allen:] Pagenturm SS, a 5.000 grt 1909 built armed merchantman was torpedoed without warning by UB-40 on 16 May 1917 in her starboard side, killing four crewmembers. She sank 16 miles W from Beachy Head, English Channel. | |
| Paignton SS | [Tony Allen:]Paignton was a 2.017grt defensively-armed Britsih Merchant ship. On the 14th March 1917 when 40 miles NW from the Skelligs, Ireland she was captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire. 1 life lost. | |
| Pajala | [Tony Allen:]Pajala was a Swedish Motor Freighter of 6873 tons carrying 9150 TONS OF GRAIN and CATTLE FOOD, general cargo, paper. She was built in 1924 and owned by GRANGESBERG-OXELOSUND, TRAFIKAKTIEBOLAGET. She was torpedoed 10 miles,72 degrees NORTH of RONA,HEBRIDES. | |
| Palembang SS | De Palembang 6674 brt is gebouwd in 1911 bij de Firma Bonn en Mees te Rotterdam in opdracht van rederij de Rotterdamse Lloyd. Kaptein Visser had opdracht bij het uitvaren op 18 maart 1916 zich te melden als hij bij lichtschip Noord-Hinder was en daarna bij lichtschip Galloper. Hij meldde zich inderdaad bij lichtschip Noord-Hinder om 9.00 uur doch niet meer bij Lichtschip Galloper. Het schip werd in eerste instantie om 11.22 door een mijn geraakt waarna op 11.25 een tweede explosie plaats vond die van een torpedo van een Duitse onderzeeboot bleek te zijn. Om 11.32 werd een tweede torpedo afgevuurd zodat de Palembang om 11.37 zonk in de omgeving van de Galloper boei. (Bron: Archief PZC Vlissingsche Courant 1916) | |
| Pandora | [Tony Allen:]Lost with all hands. | |
| Paragon HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Paragon, British, Acasta class Destroyer Torpedoed by German destroyers that were attacking the Dover Barrage. She was hit by a torpedo and gunfire and broke in half within eight minutes and sank. Some of her own depth charges exploded killing some of the survivors | |
| Paralos | [Martien Slaats:] Door toedoen van german destroyer z fdz bonte is het op 6-12-1939 gezonken. | |
| Paranagua | Launched by Howaldtswerke AG, Hamburg for the Hamburg-South America service. 9.425 tons; 136.1x18.7x11.3m; 8 cyl MAN oil engine; 3,350 hp; 13knots;32 crew. Paranagua was launched in 1939, but immediately requisitioned as a transporter in operation Seelöwe (invasion of England). On 17th December 1940 she struck a mine near Den Helder, The Netherlands. | |
| Paris SS | [Plongeurs de Dunkerque:] Un vrai maître à ses heures de gloire, la grande vitesse du Paris fut utilisée pendant la première guerre mondiale, lorsqu'il fut mouilleur de mines. Il reprit ensuite son service à Dieppe. Le Paris fut modifié en 1929-30, la superstructure fut aplatie et il reçu de nouvelles chaudières à gasoil en 1932. Dès 1934, il fut connu pour ses deux croisières par semaine en été entre Palace Pier et Dieppe. Le Paris fut d'abord utilisé pour le transport de troupe au début de la guerre, avant d'être transformé en navire hôpital en Janvier 1940. Comme ses contemporains, le Paris ne fut pas très utilisé avant le mois de Mai, puis tout changea, lorsqu'il fut appelé à Calais puis Dunkerque au début de l'opération Dynamo. Il arriva à Dunkerque la première fois, en compagnie de ''l'Isle of Thanet'', le 25 Mai. Trois jours plus tard il s'échoua dans la passe de Zuydecoote en essayant d'atteindre Dunkerque par l'Est, sans dommages, trois autres navires firent de même. Le Paris fut endommagé par une bombe quand il retraversa le 2 Juin et 20 membres d'équipages perdirent leur vie. Malgré les efforts du remorqueur ''Sun XV'' pour ramener le navire, le Paris coula à environ 10 miles des plages, suite à d'autres attaques aériennes. Description sommaire: Construit en: 1913, tonnage brut: 1774, longueur: 92m, largeur: 11m, vitesse: 24 noeuds. [Vince Hoffman:] Bouwnummer 973 | |
| Parkhaven | [Arie De Lange] Nederlands vrachtschip van rederij van Uden uit Rotterdam. In de WWI werd het schip met nog zeven andere schepen gevorderd door de Nederlandse Regering om 100.000 ton steenkool uit Engeland te halen. Op 19-10-1917 werd de Parkhaven door de onderzeeboot U-53 getorpedeerd waarna de bemanning met behulp van 2 sloepen het schip verliet. Omdat de Parkhaven niet gelijk zonk lanceerde de Duitse onderzeeer een tweede torpedo waarna de Parkhaven zonk op 15 mijl van LS Noord-Hinder. De bemanning werd opgepikt door de vislogger RO-27 en in Hoek van Holland afgezet. Bron: Archief Schepenlijst Rederij van Uden. | |
| Parsons | [Tony Allen:]Parsons; 6.742 tons; 419x57x11 ft; Built in 1941. Requisioned by MOWT. On the 12th January 1942 she was wrecked on Stroma Isle, North Coast of Scotland. Position : 58°41N 03°06W | |
| Partridge | [Tonu Allen:]Partridge. Ocean Tug, Old (ATO) USS Partridge (ATO-138) sunk after being torpedoed by German motor torpedo boats off Normandy, France, 11 June 1944. | |
| Partridge HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Partridge, British, M class Destroyer. Sunk by German destroyers G-101, G-103, G-104 and V-100 in the North Sea whilst escorting a convoy. | |
| Pascal SS | [Yvan Verkempinck]The 5.587 tons SS Pascal was built in 1913 for Lamport & Holt Line. She was torpedoed December 12th 1916 and sunk off Channel Islands, with the loss of two lives. | |
| Pathfinder HMS | British Pathfinder Class Scout Cruiser torpedoed and sunk out from the Firth of Forth by German submarine U-21. Hit by a single torpedo that hit the forward magazine causing it to explode, Pathfinder sinking in 4 minutes. She was the first British warship sunk by a submarine in World War 1. There were seventy survivors from the crew of 570. 49 of these were picked up by a Norwegian steamer and taken to Aberdeen and and further 21 were rescued by HMS Swift. | |
| Patria HMS | This Armed Merchant cruiser was sunk by submarine attack in the Bristol Channel, with the loss of 16 lives. | |
| Patria SS | The ''Patria'' (sisterships: Phoenicia, Palatia) was built by A.G.Vulcan, Stettin for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) in 1894. She was a 7,118 gross ton ship, length 460ftxbeam 52ft (depth 35ft), one funnel, four masts, twin screw and a speed of 14 knots (4353 indicated horse power). There was passenger accommodation for 50-1st and 2,500-3rd class. The vessel had also accomodations for 500 head of cattle and cold storage rooms for 500,000 pounds of dressed meat. Launched on 25th Aug.1894, she sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to Havre and New York on 28th Nov.1894. She continued on the Hamburg - USA service and commenced her last voyage from Hamburg to Boulogne and New York on 16th Oct.1899, but caught fire in the English Channel while homeward bound on 15th Nov.1899. Her passengers were taken off by the Hamburg America Line ship ''Athesia'' and she was taken in tow but sank two days later. [Sources:]North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.401Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.4, Hamburg America Line December 17, 1894 New York Times: ''The Hamburg Line's New Steamship - Arrival of the Patria on Her First Trip Picture of Patria on fire for sale on : http://www.cavendish-auctions.com | |
| Patrice Thierry | [Philippe Mahieu:] Patrice Thierry was a french long-liner. | |
| Paulette | [Martien Slaats:]Paulette was een Belgische vissersboot op 19-5-1950 gezonken. Alle opvarenden werden gered. | |
| PC-1261 USS | [Tony Allen:]PC-1261 USS, American submarine chaser, sunk by shellfire from shore batteries off Normandy, France, 6 June 1944. | |
| Pearl SS | Built in 1885 at Paisley. Was carrying iron and steel from Glasgow to Chatham in Kent. Sank following a collision with the Barque PRIMERA of Liverpool in strong winds. | |
| Pearl SS | [Tony Allen:]Pearl, 613grt, 23 September 1916, 41 miles S ¼ E from the Nab, captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Pecten | [Tony Allen:]Pecten was built in 1927 and was owned by ANGLO-SAXON PETROLEUM CO LTD. She was on route from TRINIDAD for CLYDE carrying 9546 tons of fuel oil when she was torpedoed by U-57. 49 crew lost from a total crew 57. | |
| Peebles SS | [Tony Allen:]Peebles SS, a 4.284 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 13/10/1917, 14 miles S by E ½ E from Flamborough Head, England | |
| Peerless SS | [Tony Allen:]Peerless SS, a 3.112 grt, defensively armed steamer, 4 September 1917, 60 miles SW from Bishop Rock, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 2 lives lost, Master and two gunners prisoners. | |
| Pegasus SS | Pegasus SS, 1835 built paddlesteamer for the Hull and Leith Steam Packet Company, wooden hull, 132,4x18,5x11.1ftt 1 inch, schooner rigged sails. On 20th July 1843, shortly after midnight and with good weather conditions, Pegasus SS (Captain Alexander Miller), struck the jagged Goldstone Rock (North of The Fames), in position 55°40N 001°43W due to navigational negligence. After reversing the engines and heading for the shore, less than 1 mile away, she went down by the head, shortly after 1 a.m. Out of 41 passengers and 16 crew, only 6 survived. | |
| Pelham SS | [Tony Allen:]Pelham, 3,534grt, 13 June 1915, 30 miles NW from Scilly Isles, Corwall. Captured by submarine, sunk by bombs. | |
| Penang | [Tony Allen:]Penang, a steel barque of 2.019 tons was built in 1905 as the Albert Rickmers. She measured 265.7x40.2x24.3 ft and was purchased by Gustaf Erikson in 1923. After sailing from Port Victoria, South Australia, for Queenstown, Ireland, early in June 1940, paused briefly at Stenhouse Bay to take on board a deserter who had been apprehended by the police, and then never seen again. Her disappearance heralded the end of the era of commercial sail. Details of her final hours are shrouded in mystery. Months after she disappeared Berlin radio announced that the Penang had been torpedoed and sank off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-140 with the loss of eighteen lives on 8 December. The survivors were either left adrift in a boat, never to be rescued or taken into the U-boat which possibly was sunk later leaving no trace. The Penang was posted 'untraced' at Lloyds in March 1941 and her fate was not confirmed until after the war. To her belongs the sad distinction of being the last deep water square rigger to be lost. | |
| Pennsylvanian | [Tony Allen:]Pennsylvanian; Sank off Normandy. | |
| Pentrych SS | [Other Source:]Built 1988, 382 ton British Steamer with a cargo of coal. Sunk: 18 April 1918 by torpedoed from the UB-40 (bsac: 3.381 tons !) [Tony Allen:]Pentrych SS, a 3.382 grt 1889 built cargo steamer was torpedoed by a submarine on 18/04/1918. She was carrying coal. [Tony Allen:]Pentrych, Built in 1899 as a Steamer of 3.382 ton. British Merchantman of 3,312grt, defensively-armed, 18 April 1918, 5 miles WNW from Brighton Ligh Vessel,English Channel. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost by UB-40 a German submarine. | |
| Pentwyn SS | [Tony Allen:]Pentwyn was a 3,587grt, defensively-armed British merchantship. On the 16th October 1918, when 20 miles NE by N ¼ N from the Smalls, Wales she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost. | |
| Penvearn SS | [Tony Allen:]Penvearn was a 3,710grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 1 March 1918 when 15 miles N ½ W from South Stack she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 21 lives lost. | |
| Penylan HMS | [Tony Allen:]Torpedoed by E-boat, off Plymouth, English Channel. | |
| Peoria | Iron built trawler in 1974 at Passajes (Spain). | |
| Pepinella SS | The s.s. Pepinella was built in 1928 at the J. Crown and Sons shipyard at Sunderland. The order was put by shippingcompany ''Tree'', owned by Howard Jones Ltd in London. The ship was first named ''Cedartree''. In 1956, the ship was celled and renamed as ''Blue Bell''. In 1958, the ship was renamed again and called ''Silverbell''. In the same year, the ship was sold to an Italian company and was renamed ''Pepinella''. On April 20th, on voyage from Venice to Amsterdam, the ship suffered a collision with the Nordish steamer ''Sundak'' and the Pepinella sank near the Fairybank on her first trip under Italian flag. | |
| Pergo | [Martien Slaats:]eigenaar:g.de vries,zwartesluis; beheer:e.wagenborg's scheepvaart-& expeditiebedrijf n.v werf:scheepswerf-&rep.gebr.sander n.v /206 bouwjaar 1958; brt: 383; nrt: 188; draagv.:475; lente: 47.83 meter; breedte: 7.84 meter; holte: 2.71 meter; vermogen:220 pk; snelheid: 8.5 knoop; roepsein PGSA; kiel te water 15-2-1958; proefvaart: 30-4-1958; indienst: 2-5-1958; Mutatie: 1-februari 1975 op reis ijmuiden-londonderry op 27 mijl zuid van portland hill na aanvaring met het nederlandse MS ZANZIBAR vergaan in positie van 50,15,30nb-03,03,wl,waarbij de bemanning is gered. | |
| Peridot HMS | [Martien Slaats:]HMS Peridot was an armed trawler, mined on 15th February 1940 in the English Channel | |
| Perrone SS | [Jan Lettens:]S/S Perrone; British cable layer, 3342 tons; 98 x 14m; Built 1882; Sank in 1917. | |
| Perseus HMS | This P class submarine was on patrol off the east coast of Greece during her passage from Malta to Alexandria. On this date she struck a mine and sank bow first and hit the bottom almost vertically. She eventually settled level on the sea bed but with a list to starboard. Only six men were known to alive at this point, all in the after ends. The escape equipment was rigged with extreme difficulty and during the process four of these six initial survivers had died. Only one of the remaining two was to survive, Leading Stoker John Capes. Part of story of his escape reads:''I attempted to leave with with the DSEA torch but owing to the blast of air coming through the DSEA canvas trunking and dislodging my nose clip I was forced to return to the compartment. I refitted my nose-clip etc., and re-entered the outside hatch. The jumping wire was not visible. I proceed to the surface. The DSEA apron controlled speed very efficiently. The time taken to ascend was about one and a half minutes. A few feet from the surface I saw amine, which I judged to be 10 to 15 feet down. On surfacing I used the torch to SOS towards land; there was no answer, neither was there any sign of other survivors in the sea. I judged the time taken to reach the surface from the time of the explosion was one and a half hours. I began to swim towards shore, about five or six miles away, reaching it some six hours later at dawn.'' | |
| Persier SS | [HSAC:]Persier SS; 5.382 ton Belgian steamer, formerly War Buffalo, built 1918. 400ftx52ft. 517hp triple-expansion engines. Armed with 4.7in gun on stern, two 20mm Oerlikons amidships. Powdered egg, tinned meat, baby food and soap for starving Belgians, Cardiff for Antwerp. Sunk: 11 February, 1945, by torpedo from UB-1017. 20 crew lost. Didn't sink immediately, and propeller cut two packed lifeboats in half. [Tony Allen:] Defensively armed merchant ship; Torpedoed near Eddystone; Engines restarted themselves. | |
| Peshawur SS | [Tony Allen:]Peshawur SS, a 7.634 grt defensively armed merchant ship was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine on October 9th 1917, 7 miles SE ¼ E from Ballyquintin Point, Co Down, Ireland. 11 people died. | |
| Petit Metier | [Philippe Mahieu:] Wooden tug build vessel in 1969. The trawler 'l'Aventure vad' tempted to tow her back to port. | |
| Petra | German ship with a cargo of fertilizers. | |
| Petunia SS | [Tony Allen:]Petunia was a 1.749grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 8th May 1917 when 45 miles W from Bishop Rock, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 2 lives lost, Master and 2 gunners made prisoners. | |
| Pheasant HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Pheasant, British, M class Destroyer. Mined in Orkney Isles whilst acting as a dispatch ship for the Grand Fleet. | |
| Philadelphian | [Tony Allen:] Philadelphian, built 1891 Leyland Line. British merchant ship. Defensively armed. | |
| Phillipe MFV | [Tony Allen:]French Fishing Vessel Phillipe caught fire and sank on Xmas Day in the 80's. Cannot remember the year. When fishing this wreck we retrieved the Captains suitcase and returned it to his widow. All hands lost. | |
| Phoenix HMS | The destroyer of the Acheron class only British warship to be sunk by the Austrian Navy. She was torpedoed by U27. | |
| Phryne SS | [Tony Allen:]Phryne was a French Steam Freighter built in 1939 and was owned by SOCIETE NAVALE CAENAISE. She was on route from IMMINGHAM for BAYONNE when she hit a mine laid by U-13. She sank 3.5 miles East ALDEBURGH Light Vessel, Suffolk, UK. | |
| Pia | [Didier De Waele:] Pia, 304 br tons; 195hp; 37,8x7,2x2,5m; by Sander Gebr Delfzijl for Jan Kluglist. One of the first victims of WWII, the Pia hit a mine on May 18th 1940, en route from Nieuwpoort to Boulogne. She sunk near Gravelines. She was having a yacht, Albatros III under tow. The Captain, A. Pekelder, his wife, the crew and four people on board of the yacht were never found again. Her actual position is yet unknown. | |
| Pidnersk | [Tony Allen:]Pidnersk. Believe this is a Russian Factory Ship that sunk in 1994 that dragged its anchor in bad weather. Lies on the south side of Ness of Trebister, Scotland. | |
| Pigmy HMS | Still remaining to be found. | |
| Pikepool SS | [Tony Allen:]Pikepool was built in 1909 by Ropner & Son, Stockton who owned the vessel. In 1940 mined and sunk near Smalls Light, Pembrokeshire , Wales. | |
| Pilsudski | [HSAC:]14.294 ton twin-screw Polish liner converted by Admiralty to troopship at start of WWII, built 1935. 526ftx70ft. 2516hp diesel engines. Armed: AA guns. In ballast, Tyne for Australia. Sunk: 26 November, 1939 after striking German mine 25 miles off Withernsea. 10 crew lost. | |
| Pinapolis | Bombed and sunk on 11th June 1940 by German aircraft during the evacuation of the British troops from France. | |
| Pincher HMS | [Tony Allen:]Pincher HMS, British Beagle Class Destroyer. Ran aground and wrecked in bad weather on the Isles of Scilly 12th July 1918. | |
| Pindos | [Tony Allen:]Pindos steel four masted barque. The vessel was originally called Eusemere and was renamed in 1896. | |
| Pindos SS | [Tony Allen:]Pindos was a Greek steam freighter built in 1908 and owned by LUSI LTD, A . PINDOS STEAMSHIP CO LTD. She was on route from BAHIA BLANCA for AVONMOUTH carrying 7590 tons of grain when she was torpedoed by U-58 and sunk. 3 crew lost from a toal of 32. | |
| Pine HMS | [Other Source:]Pine HMS. This is a wreck of a tree class admiralty trawler and was sunk by a Torpedo from one of a pack of 18 German E-Boats on January 31, 1940, with the loss of 10 crew. [Tony Allen:]Built in 1940. 530t Tree Class Trawler. Dimensions: 150x27.5x10.5 feet. Powered by reciprocating single screw V.T.E 850HP engine. Speed 11.5 knots. Armed: 1 x 12 pounder, AA 2 x 5"" (1x2) 4-M(2x2) L.G Guns. | |
| Pinewood SS | [Tony Allen:]Pinewood was a 2,219grt British Merchant Steamer that was defensively-armed. On the 17 February 1918, when 15 miles North from Mine Head, North Devon, United Kingdom she was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. 2 lives lost. | |
| Pintall HMS | Corvette | |
| Pionersk | [Ludo Gugliermetto:]The Pionersk was a large ship, at a length of 180m, and lies in a depth of 22m. She too dragged here anchors in a severe southerly storm and was blown ashore at Gulberwick on 31 October 1994. | |
| Plumona | [D. Van Weenen:]klein sleepbootje omgebouwd als viskotter ""Plumona"". | |
| Pluto SS | [Kees Spaans] Pluto is een oude Stoomsleper, gebouwd bij de RDM in 1909. [Arie De Lange] Stoomsleepboot PLUTO Nederlandsch– Indische Tankboot Maatschappij, 's-Gravenhage is op 13-01-1909 gekapseisd en gezonken voor Scheveningen tijdens de eerste reis met een lichter op sleeptouw in zwaar weer. Bouwjaar 1908 werf, Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Amsterdam bouwnummer 96. Lxbxdg.: 36,53x7,32x3,71 meter, verplaatsing 251 brt. 1x3 cilinder Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij machine uit 1908 vermogen 650 ipk. = 478 kW. | |
| Pluto SS | [Philippe Mahieu] Delivered from Laxevaag Maskin- og Skibsbyggeri, Bergen in Aug.-1918 as Røvær to D/S A/S John K. Haalands Rederi, Haugesund. 1598 gt, 925 net, 2450 tdwt, 246'x37.9'x15.6', Triple exp. (Laxevaag). Sold in 1922 to D/S A/S Pluto (B. Stolt-Nielsen & Co.), Haugesund, renamed Pluto. Sold Nov.-1926 to A/S D/S Facto (B. Stolt-Nielsen & Sønner A/S). Torpedoed and sunk on Jan. 23-1940 by U-19 (Schepke), when on a voyage from Bergen to Middlesbrough in ballast, position 55°35N 01°27W, no casualties. Norway was still neutral at the time. (A visitor to my site has told me that ''Shipwreck Index of the British Isles'' gives the position as 5.25 miles east of Beadnell Point, Northumberland). The crew of 22 were picked up by a Finnish vessel and taken to Seahouses. [Information from:http://www.warsailors.com] | |
| Plympton SS | [HSAC:]Plympton: 2869 ton British steamer, built 1893. 314ftx40ft. 256hp triple expansion engines. 4.100 tons maize, Rosario to Dublin, via Falmouth. Position: 49°53'00N - 06°20'48W (all positions are GPS). Sunk: 14 August, 1909, by running on to Lethegus Rocks, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly in thick fog. Capsized later and sank, drowning two islanders engaged in salvage. Hathor: 7060 ton German steamship, built 1912. 472ftx61ft. 482hp 3-cylinder triple expansion engines. Nitrate of soda, oil cake, Chile to Portland. Sunk: 2 December, 1920, on Lethegus Rocks after breaking free from tow and dragging anchors. Depth: 33m. | |
| Pointe du Hoc | Was sunk deliberately, Dec 1991, plan MELLICK) | |
| Polbrae SS | [Tony Allen:]Polbrae, 1,087grt, defensively-armed British Merchantman on the 4 May 1918 was torpedoed and sunk without warning, 1¼ miles SW from Sharpnose Point, North Devon,UK. 2 lives lost. | |
| Poldown SS | [Tony Allen:]Poldown SS, a 1.370 grt defensively armed merchant ship was mined and sunk October 9th 1917, 2 miles WSW from Trevose Head, Cornwall. 18 were killed, including the Captain. | |
| Poleire | Motor vessel of 1.599 tons, 284ftx40.7ftx16.2 ft Sunk: 1970. Ran aground. | |
| Polesley SS | [Tony Allen:]Polesley was 4,221grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 21 September 1918, 1 mile North from Pendeen Ligh Hose, Cornwall, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 43 lives lost including Master. | |
| Polewell SS | [Tony Allen:]Polewell SS. Built in 1988 by J L Thompson & Son. She measured 86.56x11.6x5.53 metres. Powered: 3 cylinder triple expansion engine delivering 201HP. On route from Troon to France with a cargo of coal when she was torpedoed by U-96. | |
| Polflied | (R. Maes:) De naam Polflied die aan het wrak gegeven is, komt van de sportvisser André Polflied uit Koksijde die steeds naar dat wrak ging om er te vissen. Andere sportvissers gingen dan ook vissen op het wrak van Polflied. Vandaar de naam. | |
| Poljames SS | [Tony Allen:]Poljames, 856grt, defensively-armed. Sunk 2 October 1918, 6 miles South from the Lizard, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 13 lives lost. | |
| Polleon SS | [Tony Allen:]Polleon was a 1,155grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 22 March 1918 when 3 miles ENE from entrance to River Tyne she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 4 lives lost. | |
| Polly Johnson | []Engelse trawler gebouwd in 1919. Ze had een waterverplaatsing van 230 ton en werd door de Royal Navy bewapend en ingezet om de toegangswagen naar belangrijke havens te controleren. In de meidagen van 1940 nam ze deel aan de evacuatie van 350.000 soldaten van het British Expeditionary Force en Franse landtroepen die door de Duitsers in Duinkerke de zee werden ingedreven. Op 25 mei 1940 om 15u30 werd het schip door een ''near miss'', tijdens een Duitse luchtaanval op Duinkerke, zwaar beschadigd. Het slaagde erin Duinkerke te verlaten en koers te zetten naar Nieuwpoort. Geleidelijk begon het schip te zinken door een aantal scheuren in de romp. Soldaten en bemanning werden door de Arley aan boord genomen en de Polly Johnson werd met kanonvuur naar de bodem geschoten. Ze was één van de 250 geallieerde schepen die bij operatie Dynamo verloren gingen. In 1988 werd het grootste gedeelte van het wrak geborgen nadat 2 pleziervaartuigen schade hadden opgelopen nadat ze met het wrak in aanvaring waren gekomen. De resten van het wrak liggen dicht bij de haven van Nieuwpoort, waardoor het er soms druk bevaren is. [Tony Allen:]Built by Cook Welton & Gemmell of Beverley (GB). Came into service in 1919 as the John Alkenhead SH 171. Purchased by in 1922 by W. A. Massey & Sons Ltd (Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd) of Hull and renamed Polly Johnson. Requisioned by the British Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper. | |
| Polruan SS | 1907 Gray, W. & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool;Hall Brothers, Cairnes, Noble & Co; 3.692 tons;100.89x14.7x6.7m;Screw, 3 cylinder triple expansion, 292 NHP Built in Hartlepool, the Polruan was used as a collier until October 25 1916 when she foundered after striking Whitby Rock. A Board of Trade inquiry decided that whilst this was probably the case, they would discount that it may have struck a mine, this wreck like the wreck of the ''Rohilla'' is one which is owned by local divers. | |
| Polvena SS | [Tony Allen:]Polvena SS, a 4.750 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 17/10/1917, 25 miles N by E ¼ E from Ushant. 3 lives were lost. | |
| Polwell | [Tony Allen:]Polwell was built in 1888. | |
| Polymnia SS | [Tony Allen:]Polymnia was a 2.426grt defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 15th May 1917 when 15 miles W from the Lizard, Cornwall, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 8 lives lost. | |
| Polzella SS | [Tony Allen:]Polzella was built in 1929 and was 4751 tons, She was owned by THOMAS (BUTE DOCKS) LTD, J J. ECLIPSE SHIPPING & TRADING CO LTD. On route from NARVIK 13 JAN 40 and LODINGEN 13 JAN 40 for METHIL & TEES carrying ore. 37 crew thought were lost. Vessel lost at MUCKLE FLUGGA, SHETLANDS. | |
| Pomelin | Sunk 24th November in a gale. | |
| Pomerania SS | [Diving Sussex:]Pomerania SS; Built in 1873, this Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer sunk on 25th November 1878, after a collision with iron hulled barque Moel Eillian. Four out of nine lifeboats were destroyed in the collision and 48 men drowned. [HSAC:] 3382 ton Hamburg-Amerika Line steamer, built 1873. 360ftx40ft. 600hp two-cylinder engines. General, 109 passengers, New York for Hamburg via Plymouth. Sunk: 25 November, 1878, by collision with iron-hulled barque Moel Eilian off Folkestone. Four out of nine lifeboats destroyed in collision. Forty-eight drowned. | |
| Pomeranian SS | [HSAC:]The Pomeranian was a 4,364 gross ton ship, built in 1882 by Earle's Shipbuilding Co, Hull as the Grecian Monarch for the Monarch Line. Her details were - length 381ftxbeam 43.8ft, one funnel, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 40-1st, 60-2nd and 1,000-3rd class. Launched on 6/5/1882, she sailed from London for New York on her maiden voyage on 13/8/1882. Her last voyage on this service started on 26/11/1886 and she was sold to the Allan Line in 1887 and renamed Pomeranian. On 8/9/1887 she commenced her first London - Montreal sailing and on 24/8/1889 transferred to the Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal service. She started her first Glasgow - New York voyage on 10/4/1891 and on 4/2/1893 was badly damaged by heavy seas, with the loss of 12 lives. She returned to Glasgow where she was rebuilt and her masts reduced to two. On 11/5/1893 she resumed Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal sailings and in 1902 was refitted to carry 2nd and 3rd class passengers only. She resumed London - Montreal sailings on 6/5/1905 and on 9/5/1912 commenced her first Liverpool - Philadelphia crossing. Her first Glasgow - Liverpool - Philadelphia voyage started on 15/6/1912 and on 19/12/1912 she resumed London - St John NB - Halifax voyages. On 15/4/1914 she transferred back to Glasgow - Liverpool - Philadelphia sailings and on 26/12/1914 sailed Glasgow - Halifax - Portland. In 1917 she came under the ownership of Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, and was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC.77 near Portland Bill on 15/4/1918 with the loss of 45 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.317] - | |
| Pommern | [Tony Allen:]Pommern, German, Deutschland class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Pomone HMS | In October 1811, the 38-gun frigate Pomone was stranded. The frigate was returning from the Mediterranean where its captain - Robert Barrie - had gained conspicous success in several engagements with the French. Barrie was trying to achieve a speedy return to Portsmouth and had decided to use the Needles Channel. As with the Assurance (sunk 1755) he misjudged his course and the Pomone struck Goose Rock causing considerable damage to the vessel and ensuring that all hopes of refloating it were futile. During the following three days hordes of small boats were employed in clearing the vessel of its guns, stores and other possessions. Amazingly some thoroughbred Iranian horses, which were a gift from the Shah of Persia to King George III, were landed safely. | |
| Pontet Canet SS | [Yves Dufeil:]Le vapeur français Pontet-Canet a été torpillé par le sous-marin UB-109, Kplt Kurt Ramien et coulé le 25 Août 1918 à une douzaine de milles dans le N.NW des Héaux de Bréhat durant une traversée de Le Havre vers Bordeaux. Six hommes devaient trouver la mort dans ce torpillage. Ce vapeur était la dernière victime de l' UB-109 qui disparaissait à son tour 4 jours plus tard en traversant le Pas de Calais. [Yves Dufeil:]French steamer Pontet-Canet was torpedoed and sunk by UB-109, Kplt Kurt Ramien. She was to be the last victim of that submarine who met her fate 4 days later when passing through the Straits of Dover.[Other Source:]French cargo; 1.183 tons, torpedoed by a submarine on 25/08/1918. | |
| Pontypridd SS | [Tony Allen:]Pontypridd was a 1.556grt British Merchant ship. On the 12th March 1917 when off Aldeburgh, Suffolk she hit a mine and sank. 3 lives lost. | |
| Ponu | Tanker of 5.077 tons and 405ft. Sunk: 1916. Ran aground. | |
| Ponus | [Tony Allen:]Ponus ran aground off Swanpool Point in Cornwall. She was 405 feet long. | |
| Pool Fisher | 218ft and 1.028 tons. Sunk: overturned (whatever that may mean) in 1979. | |
| Port Napier HMS | [HSAC:]9.600 ton merchantman, converted to minelayer, built 1940. 498ftx68ft. Armed. 550 sea mines and 6000 rounds ammunition for 10 AA guns aboard. Position: 57°15'98N - 05°41'18W Depth: 21m. Sunk: 27 November, 1940, after fire broke out during mine-loading at Kyle of Lochalsh. Towed into Loch Alsh where sank after explosion (not of mines, which were salvaged by RN divers in 1950). | |
| Port Nicholson SS (Makarini) | [Martien Slaats:]Port Nicholson (ex- SS Makarini) was een emigrant carrier in 1916 verkocht aan TYSER LINE en omgedoopt en gebruikt als armed carrier. In 1917 op een mijn gelopen die gelegd was door UC-1 op 15 mijl West Half Noord van Duikerke. Er waren twee doden te betreuren. [Peter Haack:]Port Nicholson (ex-Makarini) was built in 1912 by Workman, Clark & Co. at Belfast with a tonnage of 8.491grt, a length of 490ft 2in, a beam of 61ft 5in and a service speed of 13 knots. Equipped with accommodation for 1000 emigrants in the 'tween decks she was immediately deployed on the Victoria Government's emigrant service following delivery in April 1912. She was transferred to the Commonwealth & Dominion Line on 23rd January 1914 and renamed Port Nicholson in April 1916. In 1914 she was taken over for troopship duties and on 15th January 1917, during a voyage from Sydney to London via Dunkirk with a general cargo and meat, she was sunk by a mine which had been laid by UC-1 15 miles west by north of Dunkirk with the loss of two lives. | |
| Portelet SS | [Tony Allen:]Portelet was a British Steam Freighter built in 1918. She was on route from IPSWICH for SUNDERLAND in ballast when she was torpedoed by U-59. 2 crew lost 9 crew saved. | |
| Porthkerry SS | Porthkerry SS, a 1.920 ton 280ft steamer was torpedoed 20th May 1917 by UB-40, 16 miles W by S from Beachy Head, English Channel. The Captain and 7 crew were killed. Laying close by is the wreck of the Tycho, of 3.216 tons the Porthkerry stopped to pickup survivors and was torpedoed the same U Boat that sank the Tycho seven minutes earlier. 15 men and the master of the Tycho were killed. | |
| Portia | [Tony Allen:]Portia; 7.058 tons; 433x56x23 ft; Built in 1942. Requisioned by MOWT. On the 30th June 1944 she was mined off Selsey Bill and beached at Ryde. She was a total loss. | |
| Portland | In the summer of 1761 the 70-gun Dorsetshire was wrecked at Horse Sands (close to the Mary Rose wreck site). This shipping accident caused the Port Admiral (Vice Admiral Fancis Holborne) at Portsmouth to issue an order to all Naval shipping masters, '...to sound out the channels, which they should do several times by way of refreshing their memories, this being the second great ship they have run ashore lately'. His instruction appears to have gone unheeded because just four months later, in October, the 50-gun vessel Portland came to grief on the Middle Ground just off Ryde. | |
| Portrieux | [Tony Allen:] | |
| Portrieux SS | [Tony Allen:]Portrieux SS; French steamer; 2.260 tons; 88m; Built by Harland & Wolff Ltd of Belfast and launched in 1918 as the War Buckler. Purchased by Vendu à la France en 1919. Armé par les Chemins de Fer de l'Etat Français au Havre. Renommé Portrieux. Armé par la Société Maritime Nationale en 1920. | |
| Portslade | [Diving Sussex:]Portslade was a collier, sunk on 25th July 1940 by German bombers. | |
| Poulmic | [Tony Allen:] On the 3 July 1940, during the Second World War, the Royal Navy seized the French personnel carrier Le Poulmic, then lying at Plymouth, after the collapse and surrender of the French forces. Le Poulmic, a vessel of 300 tons and 121 feet in length, was soon put to use by the Navy as a minesweeper and general workboat, and carried out her duties in and around the Plymouth area. However, she was not destined to remain under the White Ensign for very long. On the 6 October 1940, whilst carrying out routine minesweeping off Penlee Point, the Poulmic struck a mine and quickly sank. | |
| Poussoir | Remorqueur | |
| Prangenhof | Het schip lag in positie 51°22'07N-003°13'02E. Het is op 27/04/1916 gestrand voor Heist. (info Bundesarchief) Het betrof een stalen treiler van 36m lengte,7m breedte en 215 ton, gebouwd in Duitsland op de Tecklenborg Werft bouwnummer 186 voor reder J. Wieting uit Bremerhaven in 1902. Het werd in Oostende op de kade gelegd door de Rambiz waar het verder vrijgemaakt werd van munitie. (info: Vincent Hoffmann, duikmeester-ontmijner marine) | |
| Preradovic SS | [Tony Allen:]Preradovic was a Freighter built in 1907 and of 5.394 tons which was torpedoed without warning by U-124 when on route from Wanaba for the Tees. All the crew of 40 were lost. She was carrying 7.900 tons of iron ore. | |
| Presidente-viera SS | Uruguay steaming cargo, ran aground in the night of 18/11/1916 at the bay of Saint-Trojan. Was broken in two at the middle and covered with sand. | |
| Presto SS | [Tony Allen:]Vessel was previously called the DUNELM. Built in 1916 and owned by Stone & Rolfe Ltd. | |
| Preussen | [Diving Sussex:]Preussen, 5.081 ton five masted steel vessel. 408ftx53ft. Was the biggest sailing ship in the world. Cargo: General, cement, 100 piano's Hamburg to Valparaiso. Sunk: 6 November 1910, In collision with cross channel steamer, driven ashore in Fan Bay after Lines from the tugs snapped in gale. | |
| Primo SS | [Tony Allen:]Primo was 1,037grt and a defensively-armed steamship. On the 18 September 1918, 3½ miles NNW from Godrevy LH, Cornwall she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Primrose HMS | [Tony Allen:]Gunship ran aground 1809. | |
| Prince George | The Prince George was in tow to a German salvage company, when she ran aground 24th december 1921. Parts of the ship are still visible at 'Hondsbosche Zeewering' in Petten (Holland). | |
| Prince Leopold SS | [HSAC:]2.938 ton, Belgian steamer, built 1930, converted to infantry landing ship 1941. 347ftx46ft. Armed. Isle of Wight to Normandy. Sunk: 29 July, 1944, by torpedo from German U-boat, striking portside, midships. | |
| Princess Dagmar SS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Dagmar, 913grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship on the 7th May 1918 was torpedoed and sunk without warning in the Bristol Channel. 24 lives lost including Master. | |
| Princess Ena SS | British steamer; 1.198 tons; 76m; London and South Western Railway Cpy, 1906 Dundee. Voyage from Southampton to St Malo and excursions to Jersey. On 3th August 1935, she was on fire during her voyage (without passengers) from Jersey to Saint-Malo. Fortunately, she had landed her passengers - 500 boy scouts - in Jersey earlier that morning. Over the next two days the fire got completely out of control and she drifted until her anchors were dropped and the 42 crew abandoned her. She went down stern-first. The crew anchored her at 9 milles from the Corbière lighthouse. She foundered the next day. | |
| Princess Irene HMS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Irene HMS, minelayer sank after an internal explosion off Sheerness, Isles of Sheppey, Kent. | |
| Princess Irene SS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Irene SS; 763 tons; 209x30 ft. A cargo steamer which ran into Linney Head, mistaking it for St Govans head in dense fog. Crew were rescued using rocket apparatus. Goods rescued were oils, beer, whiskey, soap, candles, canvas and ropes. Sank in 1906. Wind conditions were SW force 3 | |
| Princess Olga SS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Olga was a 998grt, Merchantship. On the 16 December 1914, 5 miles ENE from Scarborough she was mined and sunk. | |
| Princess Royal SS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Royal, 1,986grt, defensively-armed, 26 May 1918, 3 miles WNW from St Agnes Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 19 lives lost. | |
| Princess Victoria | [Tony Allen:]Princess Victoria; Ferry; 309,9 x 48,2; British; Captain James Ferguson; Built 1946, Dumbarton; Launched 1946, Dumbarton; The first roro car ferry in service in the world she worked between Larne, Northern Ireland and Stranraer in Scotland. The worst shipping disaster in peacetime in the UK. Sunk Copeland Islands during a storm; Loss of Life 128 out of 180. | |
| Princess Victoria SS | [Tony Allen:]Princess Victoria was built in 1939 as a Merchantship for the London Midland & Scottish Railway Co. In 1940 she was mined and sunk off River Humber;North Sea with the loss of 36 lives. | |
| Prins Hendrik SS | Steamer; 1890; B. Wilton; Middelburgsche Maatschappij van Stoomvaart (MMvS); 45x7m; Names: Middelburg1, Prinses Juliana, Prins Hendrik. Was bombed on 3rd September 1943 by the R.A.F. in the Oosterschelde. From the 17 passengers and 10 crew, only 6 survived. | |
| Prinses Beatrix KW-72 | [Hr. C. Koppe:] Prinses Beatrix KW-72 is vergaan 16 juni 1957 alle bemanning is gered door kustvaarder Jokurma met aan boord de kapitein Hr. Steiger De foto is gemaakt vlak voor dat het is gezonken Om streeks tien uur 15 juni ontstond er een brandje in de machine kamer toen de KW-72 ter hoogte van boei E.T. 16 bij Terschelling voer. Daar bevond de logger zich met een vracht haring op weg naar de thuis haven Ijmuiden. Toen de motordrijver bemerkte dat in de voedingskabel van het lichtnet kortsluiting was ontstaan (er deed zich rookontwikkeling voor in de nabijheid van de oliebunker), sloeg de motordrijver alarm. Men wist de brand af te dempen door de motorkamer luchtdicht af te sluiten. Inmiddels had men een noodsein uitgezonden, maar men hield op met uit zenden van deze seinen toen de motorkamer was afgesloten. Maar de op weg zijnde, met hout geladen, kustvaarder Jokurma met aan boord kapitein J. Steiger uit Delftzijl, was in de nabijheid gekomen evenals de Katwijkse logger De Stern. Hoe het zich allemaal heeft afgespeeld daarna, herinneren de mannen van de Beatrix zich niet meer, althans niet precies. Wel weten zij dat de KW-72, toen hij eenmaal achter de Jokurma aan de sleeplijn mee opstoomde, nadat de motor weer opgang was gebracht, plotseling achterover in de diepte verdween. De twee die achter waren gebleven op de KW-72 konden nog maar op het nippertje het vege lijf redden. Volgens kapitein Steiger moet de brandhaard het pek tussen de naden hebben weg gebrand en het waterdichte schot het begeven hebben. De andere drie opvarenden bevonden zich al op de Jokurma. Voor de twee op de KW-72 werd het nog een hachelijk avontuur, want toen hij zonk, zijn zij in een sloep gestapt, maar het ging zo snel dat de sloep nog achter de reling bleef hangen. Op het laatste moment schoot hij los en zijn ze aanboord gekomen van de Jokurma en naar Ijmuiden gebracht. Daar zijn ze met hun familie herenigd. | |
| Prinses Juliana SS | PRINSES JULIANA (A. Buskop) S.M.Z. (1.909-2.885 tons) 1.2.1916 was on her way from Vlissingen to Tilbury when she struck a mine near the lightship in Felixtowe. She was grounded there and broke in two parts in the night of 29th March 1916 during a gale. The mine was laid by the German UC-5. The steamer Prinses Juliana was built for Stoomvaart Mij Zeeland and was the first to have three double screws from a series built at Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co in Glasgow. (no. 461~463). Two of the ships were lost in WWI, only the ''Oranje Nassau'' survived. After WWI, both ships were replaced by two ships: ''Prinses Juliana'' and ''Mecklenburg''. | |
| Prinses Juliana SS | [Aad Kleijn:] (Ferry mij. zeeland) nederlandse nationaliteit. 2908 brt. Door de nederlandse regering gevorderd voor troepentransport. Op 12 mei 1940 begaf het schip zich van vlissingen naar ijmuiden met 500 man Nederlandse troepen. Ter hoogte van Hoek van holland is de Prinses Juliana uit de lucht aangevallen en ernstig beschadigd dat zij op het strand is gezet. De Duitse kustbatterijen hebben het schip als schietschijf gebruikt en kapot geschoten. Heden ten dage is nog steeds de tekening in de Duitse bunkers te zien waar zij op geschoten hebben met peiling en afstand. | |
| Prinses Sophia Albertina | Prinses Sophia Albertina was a Swedish frigate, built in 1760 in Karlskrona, Sweden. She measured 48x12,6x6,4m. She had 60 canons, 24 pcs of 24 pounders, 24pcs of 12 pounders and 12pcs of 6 pounders. She was sunk on 21st August 1781. 419 of her 450 crew perished. | |
| Prize HMS | Topsail Schooner commissioned by the Royal Navy as a Q ship (decoy ship), sunk by UB48 on or about this date in the Irish Sea. There were no survivors. Lieutenant-Commander W E Saunders VC, DSO, RNR, in command. - This from a contributer who is related to the late Lt-Cdr Saunders. (JJ College, in his 'Ships of the Royal Navy' has the location 'in the Atlantic' and the date 15th August) The Schooner was captured from the Germans in 1914 in the English Channel and subsequently sold, to be hired in 1917. It was originally the Else, and renamed on capture as 'First Prize'. | |
| Prosperity | Cypriot cargo; 108m; 2.088 tons, Sunk on 06/02/1974. Ran aground on La Conchee reef in a storm after getting into difficulty in the western approaches. All 18 hands were lost. Ship broken up but her remains are exposed on the reef on low spring tides. Was carrying timber which was washed up all along the west coast of Guernsey. | |
| Providencia | Sunk in Decembre 1991 due to the plan MELLICK. | |
| Ptarmigan SS | Ptarmigan was a british ship of 784 brt, built in 1891. On 15th April 1915, capt. Hoare noticed a periscope and called all hands on deck. Immediately after this, Ptarmigan was torpedoed amidships by UB-5 (Oberltn. zur See Wilhelm Smith). The crew tried to escape, but the screw of the ship, still turning, filled the dingy with water and all fell into the sea. The captain and two other crew were still on board, managed to recover the dingy and went out to save the people in the sea. They managed to save 6 out of the 14 crew. Ptarmigan sunk in 15 minutes. Veghtstroom, who was in the neighboorhood, finally came to rescue. There were 8 casualties. | |
| Pylades HMS | Sunk by German one-man torpedo. | |
| Quail SS | Steem driven sailing ship, built 1870. Sunk: 24th August 1886 in collision with french Merchantman the San Martin. (from RIB shoreham : 924 ton British Iron Steamer, two-cylinder engine, also rigged for sail, built 1870. 224ftx28ft. She sank 27 August 1886, due to a collision in fog with the French steamer San Martin). HSAC: 924 ton British iron steamer, also rigged for sail, built 1870. 224ftx28ft. Two-cylinder engine. general including glassware, wool, potted foods, Antwerp to Glasgow. Sunk: 27 August, 1886, by collision in fog with French steamer San Martin. | |
| Quebra USS | [Tony Allen:]Quebra USS was owned by the Mercantile Steamship Co, built in 1912, by W Gray & Sons of West Hartlepool she measured 377.5x53.5x25.4 feet and grossed 4538 tons. Powered by a triple expansion engine generating 394 nhp. Bound from New York for Liverpool. The vessel changed course after sighting a submarine. A mist decended during the night and she ran onto rocks and sank. She was carrying a cargo of meat, cotton, watches, flour, brass sheeting, rods, bars and artillery shells. Navy cleared most of the live shells in 1984/85. | |
| Queen Amelie SS | [Tony Allen:]Queen Amelie SS, 4.278 grt, defensively armed merchant steamer, captured and sunk by torpedo September 17th 1917, 19 miles NNE from Muckle Flugga, Shetland Isles. | |
| Queen Margaret | [Tony Allen:]four-masted steel barque built in 1893 by A. MacMillan & Son, Dumbarton. Dimensions 83,82 × 12,85 × 7,31 m [275'0''×42'2''×24'0''] and tonnage 2144 GRT and 1999 NRT. Rigged with skysails and royal sails over double top and single topgallant sails. On May 5th, 1913, Captain Bousfield wired the owners to get a tug to tow the ship against the strong head wind, after having received orders for Limrick. She stranded at the Stag Rocks, Lizard Point, at 08:00 when they tried to get closer to the lighthouse to read the telegraphic answer from the owners. This four-masted barque was considered by many to be one of the fastest and most beautiful ships built in the 1890's. The ship also had a reputation among seamen for the good treatment her crews received. A.A. Hurst stated than while many ships were attractive, ''it was only a few like Black's peerless Queen Margaret... that appealed for their looks.'' Steel hulled, the barque was designed and built by Macmillian of Dumbarton, Scotland in 1893 for John Black and Co. The Queen Margaret made many fine passages for the owners until the fateful day of May 5th., 1913. On that day, the captain moved in close to the Lizard (off Cornwall, England), while signaling to owners. Yet another victim of the infamous ''Falmouth for orders'' command which sent many ships to their deaths as they closed the treacherous Cornish coast to signal their owners of their arrival. The Lizard, being the Western-most point in England, meant that it was the earliest station at which a captain could signal the owners, in those pre-radio days, of his arrival. The owner would then order the ship to the port where the best price could be obtained for the cargo. Standing in to read the signal flags, the captain of the Margaret went too close. The ship struck a rock and stuck fast. Within three days, the masts went, the swelling grain in the hold split the hull and deck wide open and the once stately Queen Margaret became a total loss. What was left of the ship was sold as salvage for a paltry £50. | |
| Queen Mary HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Queen Mary, British, Queen Mary class Battle Cruiser. Lost at the battle of Jutland. At 16.25 Queen Mary exploded and went down in only 90 seconds after probably receiving a hit from the German Battle Cruiser Von der Tann. Two destroyers on both sides were also sunk during this period. | |
| Queen Victoria SS | [Tony Allen:]Queen Victoria SS was built in 1838 by Wilson of Glasgow to a very high specification. Owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Cpy. Measured 150 feet long and netted 333 tons. Powered by a two cyclinder steam engine. Bound from Liverpool to Ireland when she struck Howth Head in the middle of the night during a snowstorm. Carrying passengers and general cargo. After backing away she struck under Bailey Lighthouse and sank 100 yards to the south. 80 people died. Captain, First Mate and those resonsible for the Lighthouse were blamed for the accident. | |
| Queensmore SS | [Tony Allen:]Queensmore SS was built in 1889 and owned by W Johnson of Liverpool. She was powered by a 2 cylinder compound stean engine. On route from Baltimore for Liverpool. Was carrying a cargo of 2000 bales of cotton,1000 tons of wheat,850 tons of caopper and 900 cattle. Fire started in cotton cargo. Crew fought blaze for 3 days, an attempt was made to beach vessel and flood the hold, but she struck Bullig Reef, floated into the bay and sank. | |
| Queenswood SS | [Tony Allen:]Queenswood was a 2.701grt British Merchant ship. On the 16th February 1917 when 6 miles SW from Hartland Point, North Devon she was captured by submarine and sunk by gunfire. 3 lives lost. | |
| Queenworth HMS | bomb and sunk by german aircraft | |
| Quentovic | Trawler; 1974; 21m, sunk after a collision with tanker Vignemale, 16th February 1978. | |
| Quernmore SS | [Tony Allen:]Quernmore built in 1898 for the Johnstone Line. The 7.302grt, defensively armed vessel on the 31 July 1917, 160 miles W by N ¾ N from Tory Island, was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost. | |
| Quiberon SS | [Tony Allen:]Quiberon was built in 1922 and was formely called Atlas in 1939 and was from ROUEN (France) on the 16th January 1940 for BOSTON, Lincolnshire, UK. She was torpedoed by U-59 off Great Yarmouth. | |
| Quo Vadis | Vrachtschip van 298 brutoton, gebouwd in 1955 bij Büsumer Schiffsw. W. & E. Sielaff, Büsum voor Heinrich Buck uit Hamburg, Duitsland. Op 13 februari 1968 gezonken bij het lichtschip WESTHINDER na aanvaring met de Griekse tanker PAVLOS V. (15.861 BRT, 1951). Reis: Shoreham - Terneuzen met ijzerafval | |
| Quorn HMS | [Tony Allen:]Quorn HMS. British Escort Class Hunt Ship. Torpedoed whilst on Patrol in the region of Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy by a German motor torpedo boat. | |
| R.J. Cullen SS | [Tony Allen:]Wrecked two miles off Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. Canadian-Registered Merchant Ship working for the MOD. | |
| R-180 | German barque, sunk in WWII. | |
| Raab Karcher SS | German cargo sunk during an air raid in WWII. | |
| Rabbi SS | Norwegian steamer; 875 tons; Sunk by U-boat UB-18 on 21/10/1916 | |
| Racoon HMS | [Tony Allen:]Racoon HMS, British Beagle Class Destroyer ran aground in bad weather and was wrecked on the North coast of Ireland. | |
| Radient Med | Capsized in a storm on 25/01/1984. Radient Med - 2.997 tons carrying grain from Ghent to Pointe Noir. | |
| Raffio SS | Italian steamer, rescue ship. On 06/05/1931 the Raffio capsized while trying to recover the ''Jeanne-Marie''. The hull was flooded and one person died. | |
| Ragnhild SS | [Tony Allen:]Ragnhild SS, a 1.495 grt defensively armed steamer was torpedoed on Sept 3rd 1917, 14 miles S by E ¼ E from Flamborough Head, without warning and sunk by a German submarine. 15 lives lost including the master. | |
| Ragni | [Tony Allen:]Built Campeltown, Scotland 1919. Previous names: Frithjof Eide, Hillbrook, Ebchester. Dimensions:299.4' x 35.8' x 15.5', Triple exp. 825 ihp (Ross & Duncan, Glasgow). Struck a mine near Hartlepool on December 15th 1939 when on a voyage Hull-Malmö with a cargo of coal and coke. 6 died. | |
| Rainbow HMS | Sunk with all hands in the Mediterranean after an accidental collision with the Italian ship Antonella Costa. | |
| Rajputana SS | [Tony Allen:]Rajputana of the P&O Line. Built in 1925. 1941 torpedoed and sunk off Ireland, 41 lives lost. 16,644 tons | |
| Ramillies HMS | The 90-gun warship HMS Ramillies sank on 14th February 1760. Only 26 of the 708 crew survived. A violent southwesterly gale had sprung up, causing the Ramillies to sail for shelter and repair, as her hull was badly leaking. Due to a navigation error, she ran hard aground, the shock was so hard that her masts broke. After dropping two anchors the situation seemed almost under control. However, both snapped and the Ramillies smashed her stern right into a large cave at the bottom of the cliffs. | |
| Ramsgarth SS | Built in 1910, 1.553 tons British Merchantman, sunk 28th November 1916. Was captured and sank with explosives by UB-39. (from Rib shoreham: A small British merchantman and sank on November 28th 1916, following capture by a U-Boat and then having holes being blown through the ships bottom.) | |
| Randsfjord | [Tony Allen:]Randsfjord was a Norwegian Motor Cargo Vessel built in 1937 and owned by NORSKE AMERIKALINJE, A/S DEN. She was on route from NEW YORK for LIVERPOOL carrying a a general cargo of 6746 tons when she was torpedoed by U-30 70 miles SSE QUEENSTOWN, Ireland. 4 crew missing. 29 saved. | |
| Rask SS | [Tony Allen:]Rask. Delivered in 1890 from A. A. Wilton van Reede Czn., Papendrecht, Netherland as Göteborg to D/S A/S Marstrand (D. Torm) Copenhagen, 617 gt, 329 net, 690 tdwt, 167' x 27.2' x 17', triple exp. (A. A. Wilton v.Reede).When purchased by Olaus Kvilhaug & Co. A/S, Haugesund in 1917 she belonged to Trio Ångfartygs-A/B, Gothenburg. Renamed Uno. Sold in 1924 to Sigvart Rasmussen, Haugesund and renamed Rask. From 1929 the owners were D/S A/S Jøkul (Ths. Smedsvig), in 1934 she went to Brødrene Anda, Stavanger, then purchased in Apr.-1937 by D/S A/S Rask (Sigvald Risanger). Departed Cork on October 19th 1941 alone in ballast for Newport, sailing within Irish territorial waters, 1-2 miles off shore along the coast. Attacked at about 18:30 that evening near Tuscar Rock by 3 German aircraft which came back several times and dropped bombs or torpedoes, all detonating in the sea. Rask's 5 machine guns were manned by the 2 British gunners as well as by the 1st mate, the 1st engineer, and Able Seaman Antonsen; 2 of the attacking planes were believed to have been hit and they all took off (one of them was seen wobbling just above sea level before it disappeared out of view). The 3rd aircraft returned about 20 minutes later, flying low over the ship and suddenly a powerful explosion occurred underneath the bridge, causing the engine to stop and she heeled over to port. | |
| Raumboot A-7 | Kleine Duitse kustmijnenveger (mijnenlegger) van 120 ton. Het werd voortgestuwd door een zevenbladige Voight-Schneider schroef. Het schip moet rond augustus 1942 gezonken zijn (gedateerde 20 mm hulzen). | |
| Ravensbourne SS | [Tony Allen:]Ravensbourne was a 1.226grt, defensively-armed British Merchant ship. On the 31st January 1917 when 8 miles SE from Tyne, United Kingdom she hit a mine and sank. 3 lives lost. | |
| Ravnanger SS | [Tony Allen:]Ravnanger SS. Tonnage: 3371 gt, 2004 net, 5570 tdwt. Dimensions: 333' x 48' x 25.6'. Machinery: Triple exp. 1100 ihp, 9 knots. Delivered in Jan.-1920 from N.V.C. van der Giessen & Zonen Scheepswerven, Krimpen, Holland. Ravnanger was bombed and sunk by German aircraft (possibly He 115 of the 3./K. Fl. Gr. 906) on November 11th 1940, 1-1.5 miles northeast of No 20 Buoy, Tees Bay, when proceeding at half speed (in ballast) while awaiting a convoy to go back to Sydney, N.S. | |
| Realf | [Tony Allen:]Built in 1937 by Kockums Mekaniska Verksteds A/B, Malmö as Realf for Rønneberg & Galtung, Moss. Single propeller powered by a 6 cyl. oil/diesel engine, 1162 hp, cruiser stern, 2 decks, 16 watertight bulkheads and a superstructure consisting of a 31.09m poop deck, an 11.28m bridge deck and a 13.11m forecastle. Dimensions: 142.49m length, 18.18m beam, 10.51m draught. Struck a mine on Nov. 30-1939, laid by a German destroyer. 1 died. Sank on December 1st 1939. she was on a voyage from Philadelphia and Kirkwall for Thames Haven and Copenhagen with a cargo of 6444 tons gasolene, 3400 tons petrol and 1608 tons kerosene. | |
| Recruit HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Recruit, British, R class Destroyer Mined in the North Sea. | |
| Recruit HMS | [Tony Allen:]HMS Recruit, British, '30-knotter' class Destroyer. Torpedoed by the German submarine UB6 off Galloper Light Vessel, North Sea, the torpedo explosion cut the vessel in half and she sank rapidly. | |
| Redcar | Mijnenveger van 810 brutoton, gebouwd in 1916 bij Ayrshire Dockyard Co., Groot-Brittannië. Afmetingen: 74,4 mx8,7 mx2,0 m. - 1.400 ihp - 15 kn. - diagonal compound engines. Bewapening: één 3 in. gun, één 6 pdr., twee 2 pdr. De mijnenveger REDCAR was één van een reeks van 32 gelijkaardige vaartuigen die in opdracht van de Admiraliteit werden gebouwd in 1915. Het waren allen paddel-stomers met een geringe diepgang, bestemd om in ondiepe wateren te kunnen opereren. Op 24 juni 1917 waren de KEMPTON en de REDCAR samen op patrouille nabij de Spindle Buoy, ten noorden van Gravelines, toen ze beiden zo goed als gelijktijdig op een mijn liepen en zonken. Officiëel bevonden er zich 72 bemanningsleden op een eenheid van deze klasse. | |
| Redesmere | [Tony Allen:]Redesmere, 2.123grt, 290 x 43ft, defensively-armed, 28 October 1917, 6 miles WSW from St Catherines, torpedoed without warning and sunk by UB-40, 19 lives lost. | |
| Redline No.1 | [Tony Allen:]Redline No.1; Owned by the British-Mexican Petroleum Co.and built in 1924. In 1925 foundered in gale off Trevose Head, Cornwall. | |
| Regent Tiger | [Tony Allen:]Regent Tiger was built in 1938 as a British Motor Tanker. She was owned by BOWRING & CO LTD and was on route from TRINIDAD for AVONMOUTH carrying 10600 tons of gasolene & 3400 tons of diesel oil when she was torpedoed by U-29. 14 crew were lost. | |
| Rego | Captured by german sub and sunk with gunfire | |
| Reiaas SS | [Tony Allen:]Reiaas SS. Built in Oslo, Norway 1918. Sank after collision with the SS Folda of SWORD BEACH, France. | |
| Reime SS | Sunk by a submarine on 07/11/1916. | |
| Reindeer/Albion II? | Steel admiralty trawler. Sunk by a mine in 1916 | |
| Remindo SS | [Tony Allen:] Remindo SS, British Admiralty trawler sunk in 1918 | |
| Remuera RMS | [Tony Allen:]The RMS Remuera was built by William Denny Co. in 1911 for the New Zealand Shipping Co. With twin screws and triple expansion engines her size of 11,445 grt, 485' x 62' x 41' makes her one of the largest ships to sink off the North East coast of Scotland. She was completed on 31 May 1911 and joined the NZSC fleet on 8 September 1911 for a total cost of £176,102 9s 4d. Her role was to operate the UK/New Zealand round world route which she did with style and some excitement - she was the first British ship to travel the newly opened Panama Canal in 1914. She was approaching Rattray Head when she was spotted by German aircraft. Four Heinkel 115 torpedo bombers from KuFlGr I & II/506 based at Sola See, Stavanger and eight JU88's from X-FliegerKorps Stab I & III/KG30 (Adler Geschwader) at Aalsborg in Denmark attacked. She suffered a sustained bombing and strafing attack by the JU88's before being mortally damaged by a direct torpedo hit from one of the HE115's. All 93 crew and one gunner took to their boats and were saved, some by Fraserburgh lifeboat. | |
| Remus SS | [Tony Allen:]Remus SS was a small steamer, torpedoed off Copinsay on the 23/02/1918 with the loss of 5 men. | |
| Renate Leonhardt SS | German cargo, steamer; built 1893; 1.126 tons;. The RENATE LEONHARDT, with a cargo of 700 tons cacao, ran aground on 21st August 1917. The whole day tugs tried to free her, but it was not until the next morning that she could proceed her voyage to the North, Fredericia with no significant damage. This time, she was torpedoed by an English E-boat in the neighboorhood of Den Helder. There are many stories about the 17.000 kg gold on board of this ship, but until now, nothing has been found.. | |
| Renfrew SS | [Tony Allen:]Renfrew was a defensively armed merchant ship formerly called Galvale a steamship of 3830 tons. She was torpedoed by a U-boat 8 miles S.W. of St. Ann's Head, Wales. 40 lives lost including Master. | |
| Restoration HMS | 3rd Rate- 70 gun. Wrecked in a storm on the Goodwin Sands. | |
| Resurgam | Resurgam; world's first mechanically propelled submarine; by Reverend George William Garrett; built in 1879 by Cochran & Co in Birkenhead; Powered by a closed system steam engine patented by Eugene Lamm in 1872; 45x10 ft; 30 tons; 3 crew. The Resurgam was to make her way under her own steam from Birkenhead to Portsmouth for a demonstration to the Royal Navy when technical problems forced the crew to dock for repairs. Once repaired, Resurgam set sail at night in a gale, towed by steam yacht. The yacht developed engine trouble so the crew of the Resurgam transferred to the towing vessel to deal with the mechanical problems. The conning tower hatch on the now unmanned submarine could not be closed from the outside so the Resurgam took on water. The towrope broke under the additional strain and on February 25th 1880 the Resurgam was lost somewhere off Rhyl. | |
| Rewa SS | [Tony Allen:]Rewa SS, a 7.308 grt hospital ship, was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 4 January 1918, 19 miles W ¼ S from Hartland Point. Only 4 lives were lost. | |
| Rhapsody | French wooden trawler. | |
| Rhea SS | SS Rhea; Rijkee Rotterdam; KNSM; 1917; Rhea was requisisioned on March 1918 by the British in Gibraltar. On 22nd June 1918, she hit a mine and sunk. | |
| Rhenania SS | Ran aground on Burhou Island. | |
| Rhodesia SS | [Tony Allen:]Rhodesia SS, a 4.313 grt armed cargo was torpedoed 11th October 1917, 7 miles SE by S from Coningbeg Light Vessel, Ireland. 4 crew perished. | |
| Rhona SS | She was stopped by a U-boat and sunk 19 miles from Guernsey, while en route from Cardiff to St-Servan on 27/11/1916 | |
| Rhone SS | [Tony Allen:]Rhone was a Danish Freighter built in 1915 of 1064 tons. She was carrying coal on route from METHIL for ESBJERG when she was torpedoed by U-14 on the 16th February 1940 and sunk. 9 crew were lost. | |
| Richard de Larrinaga SS | [Tony Allen:]Richard de Larrinaga, a 5.591 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on October 8th 1917, 15 miles SE ½ S from Ballycottin Island, Ireland. 35 lives were lost including the Captain. | |
| Richard Montgomery SS | [Tony Allen:]On August 20, 1944, the ship ran aground on sand banks near the British Isle of Sheppey around 1.5 miles from Sheerness and 5 miles from Southend. Her deadly cargo manifest: 13,064 general purpose 250lb bombs; 9,022 cases of fragmenting bombs; 7,739 semi-armour piercing bombs; 1,522 cases of fuses; 1,429 cases of phosphorus bombs; 1,427 cases of 100lb demolition bombs; 817 cases of small arms ammunition. Between then and September 25, about half of the explosives were successfully removed from the wreck, after which time the ship was abandoned. A Rochester-based Stevedore Company was given the job of removing the cargo, which began August 23, 1944 using the ship's own cargo handling equipment. By the next day, the ship's hull had cracked, causing several cargo holds at the fore end to flood. The salvage operation continued until September 25, when the ship was finally abandoned. | |
| Richmond | Captured and sunk by a submarine on 01/07/1915. | |
| Rievaulx Abbey SS | [Tony Allen:]Rievaulx Abbey was built in 1907 for the Hull & Netherlands Steanship Company for the Hull-Rotterdam. In 1916 she was mined and sunk off Hull. | |
| Rievaulx Abbey SS | [Tony Allen:]Rievaulx Abbey was a 1,166grt Merchantship. On the 3 September 1916 when ¾ mile ENE from Rosse Spit Buoy, Humber, she hit a mine and sank, 2 lives lost. | |
| Rijnstroom SS | werf: v.d.Giessen Krimpen a/d Ijssel, eigenaar Hollandse Stoomboot Maatschappij. Nederlands stoomschip van 695 brt en gebouwd in 1938. Was op weg van Londen naar Amsterdam toen het schip met een gemengde lading getorpedeerd werd door de U-17 op 3 maart 1940 om 21.59 uur. Hierbij kwamen 12 opvarenden om het leven. Square reported: AN8753, Square report was de positie zoals door de Duitse marine werd gebruikt. | |
| Rimac SS | [Tony Allen:]Rimac SS. Delivered in Apr.-1919 from Porsgrunds Mek. Værksted A/S, Porsgrunn (80) as cargo vessel Frank to A/S Frank (Chr. J. Reim), Porsgrunn. Steel hull, ""Porsgrunn-type"" (engine aft and bridge amidships) 202’ x 32.1’ x 12’, 942 gt, 1300 dwt, Triple Expansion (Porsgrunds) 103 nhp, 9 knots. Sold in Dec.-1919 to A/S Havtor (P. Meyer), renamed Havmøy in April 1921. Sold in December 1933 to Skibs-A/S Mairo (Anders Smith), renamed Rimac. On a voyage from Blyth to Loch Ewe with a cargo of coal when she in the early morning hours of April 27th 1941 was run into by the British minelayer Lord Plender nr. Yarmouth, Rimac sank with a loss of 5(?); Lord Plender lost 3. The 14 surviors ware taken aboard Lord Plender and landed at Grimsby. A lifeboat later drifted ashore at Weybourne and another at East Runton. | |
| Rimfakse SS | [Tony Allen:]Rimfakse SS. Built by Kockums mek. Verkstads A/B, Malmö, Sweden, delivered in March-1921 as Rimfakse to D/S A/S Ringhorn (Albert Schjelderup), Bergen. 235.5' x 37.7' x 16.5', Triple exp. (Kockum), 160 nhp. Rimfakse left Blyth on April 20th 1941 with a cargo of 1900 tons coal for Patricksfjord, Iceland, sailing in convoy to Loch Ewe, then departed alone on April 25th 1941. At 01:50 on the 27th she was struck in the after part of No. 2 hatch, port side, by a torpedo from U-147, Capt. Eberhard Wetjen had just taken over the command that month, previously commanded by Reinhard Hardegen, position 60 10N 08 54W (about 130 n. miles northwest of Scotland). | |
| Ringen SS | [Tony Allen:]Ringen SS. Built in Rotterdam 1917. Previous names Loosedrecht, then S. E. Calvert. Took part in Operation Neptune in June-1944, arriving Normandie on June 8 and leaving June 13, made another trip between June 22 and 27, then on her 3rd trip from London she struck a mine early in the morning of July 4 off Isle of Wight. She had departed Southend on July 3 in convoy. According to the captain's report they were just passing Buoy R 3 when the explosion occurred below midships at about 06:30, causing all the cargo in holds 1 and 2 as well as some cargo from hold 3 to be thrown up in the air. Norwegian ship named Ringen, 1499 gt, was torpedoed and sunk by U-763 (Cordes) on July 5-1944, while in Convoy ETC 26, position 50 12N 00 46W. | |
| Rio Bravo | Brits libertyship (1141 ton) / 03-11-1944 getorpedeerd | |
| Rio Colorado SS | [Tony Allen:]Rio Colorado was a 3.565grt Britsih Merchant ship. On the 22nd March 1917 at the entrance to River Tyne, Uk she hit a mine and sank. 10 lives lost including Master. | |
| Rio de Janeiro SS | [Tony Allen:]Rio de Janeiro was a German passengership converted to an Army Transport Ship. Torpedoed by Polish Submarine ORP Orzel Cpt Jan Grudzinski off Skagerrak, Lillesand, Norway. | |
| Rio Sorocaba SS | [Tony Allen:]Rio Sorocaba; Captured by submarine and sunk by bombs. | |
| Risoy SS | [Tony Allen:]Risoy SS, on route from Southampton to Swansea with a cargo of 450 ton of scrap iron was attacked by three aircraft and sank of Trevose head, Cornwall when hit by bomb. 1 dead. | |
| Risque-tout | French wooden ''coquillier'', 1979, capsized and sunk while stuck on a large rock. | |
| Rissel MV | [Philippe Mahieu] Could be also MV Rigel instead of MV Rissel | |
| Ritzebüttel SS | [Fred Groen:] Uit een duits logboek: 25. Februar 1943 Nordsee. Vorpostenboot V1405 (ex-V2008, ex-Ritzebüttel) sinkt um 5:05 Uhr nach einem Minentreffer in den Hoofden auf der Position 51.36,6 N / 03.19,8 E (Quadrat AN 8738), wobei 10 Mann der Besatzung ums Leben kommen. V 2008 ist seit dem 1. Februar 1943 zur Abgabe an die 14. orpostenflottille vorgesehen und sollte dort die Bezeichnung V 1405 bekommen. [Kriegstagebuch der 20. Vorpostenflottille Kriegstagebuch der Seekriegsleitung 1939 - 1945, Band 42, Februar 1943] | |
| River Leven | [Tony Allen:]River Leven was a 180 foot Steel Schooner. On route from Caleta Buena, Chile to Rotterdam. Run down by the Swedish Steamer ADOLPHE MEYOR. Wreck confirmed by divers. | |
| Riversdale SS | [HSAC:]2.805 ton steel single-screw British steamer, built 1906 J Blumer & Co of Sutherland. 317ftx46ft. Armed with a 12-pounder. 249hp triple-expansion engines. 4.000 tons coal, Tyne to Savona, Italy. Sunk: 18 December, 1917, when being towed off after being beached following torpedoing by UB-31. One man was lost during the salvage operation. | |
| Rob Roy | [Tony Allen:]Rob Roy, 112 grt, 26 January 1918, 20 miles SW from St Catherines, captured by submarine, sunk by gunfire. | |
| Robert | [Tony Allen:]In 1975 the Coaster Robert was carrying a cargo of Anthracite Duff when the cargo shifted in heavy weather. [Martien Slaats:]ROBERT 1956 gebouwd bij gutehoffnungshutte sterkrade te walsum (D). bnr:944 loa 45.08 II 42.95 B 7.63 H 255 DG 2.79 BRT 350 NRT 174 DWT 414 MOTOR: MaK 4 tew 4 cil vermogen: 225 pk. Snelheid 9.5 mijl imo 5106378 type:gladdek stapelloop 2-5-1956 oplevering 19-7-1956 klasse: bureau veritas. brandmerk: 3423ZGRON 1956 mutaties 1956-19-jul ESMA B MEINDERT BAKKER PDZB GRONINGEN NED 1972-28-FEB ESMA B D.P.BURKE TE GRAVESEND PANAMA PAN 1974-20-JUN ROBERT CAROLIS FREDERICUS VERKOOY PANAMA PAN 1974-27-JUN TE OTTERHAM QUAY aangekomen op haar 1e reis vanuit delfzijl en de zelfde dag vertrokken naar rouen. 1975-4-jan ROBERT CORNELIS PIETER VERKOOY PANAMA PAN 1975-4-JAN tijdens de reis van cardiff naar brest met een laading kolen tijdens het ankeren met een slagzij van 45 graden in de lundy roads na lekkage in positie: 51,11 N - 04,39W gezonken. Drie van de vier bemanningsleden gered door de reddingboot RNLI 70-001 gered in te Ilfracombe aan land gebracht. | |
| Robert Adamson SS | [Tony Allen:]Robert Adamson, 2.978grt, 10 April 1916, 3 miles N by E from Shipwash Light Vessel, English Channel, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. The light vessel has now been replaced by an automatic buoy. | |
| Robert L. Vann SS | Libertyschip van 7.176 BRT, gebouwd in 1943 bij New England Shipb. Corp., Portland, Me. voor U.S. War Shipping Administration, Portland, Me. Op 1 maart 1945 gezonken door mijnontploffing ten noorden van Oostende tussen de boeien NF 9 en NF 7 in ballast (51°22'56'' - 02°47'04''). | |
| Robert W. Pomeroy SS | [Stuart Wilson:] R.W. Pomeroy SS; built 1927; Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. for Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co., Ontario, Canada; On voyage from London to Blyth, Pomeroy SS struck a German mine on 1st April 1942, 8 miles SE of Dudgeon Light Vessel. | |
| Robin John | [Tony Allen:] Local trawler from the Port of Plymouth. Sank in bad weather, all hands lost. | |
| Rochester | Still remaining to be found. | |
| Rochester City SS | [Tony Allen:]Rochester City, 1.239grt, 2 May 1916, 3 miles E from Southwold, East Anglia, mined and sunk, 1 life lost. | |
| Rockingham HMS | [Tony Allen:]former US destroyer, (DD-273 Swasey) struck a mine 30 miles SE of Aberdeen, and sank while under tow. | |
| Roedean HMS | [Tony Allen:]Built at Barrow in 1897. She was originally called Roebuck and renamed and converted to a minesweeper in 1914 by the Royal Navy and eventually hit a mine and sank in 1915. | |
| Roger Mado SS | [Le Grizzly:]Roger Mado; Français; Chalutier; Machine vapeur de 900 CH; 917 tjb; 65,00 x 9,80m; voie d'eau le 15 01 1933; | |
| Rohilla SS | 1906 Harland & Wolfe, Belfast; British India Steam Navigation Co. 3.970 tons;140.28x17.14x9.29;Twin Screw, 2xQuadruple Expansion 8,000 IHP, 850 NHP 16.6 Knots (Trials); No visit to Whitby would be complete without a trip to Whitby's most famous wreck, the hospital ship the ''Rohilla''.The Rohilla were a people of Rohilkand in the former Untited Provinces, east of Delhi. She commenced on the London - Calcutta service and trooped during the winter season, whilst carrying troops civilian passengers were also conveyed. She was designated Troopship Number Six, totally painted white, with a blue riband on the hull and her funnel was painted buff. Along with her sister ship Rewa, she represented British India at King George V review at Spithead in 1910, Rewa carried the House of Commons, Rohilla the Lords. In the same year both were fitted with radio, the first British India ships to have the installations. On the 6th of August 1914 Rohilla was requisitioned and converted for use as a Hospital Ship. On the 29th of October she left Leith bound for Dunkirk to board wounded but at 0400 the following day she ran aground on the Saltwick Nab, one mile south of Whitby. At the time the sinking was attributed to a German mine, this was propaganda, with no coastal lights available because of the war she lost her way, ran onto the bank and in the ensuing storm broke her back. Lifeboat crews from Whitby, Upgang and Tynemouth attended the stricken vessel and for their heroism were awarded three gold and four silver medals. Major Burton of the Tynemouth lifeboat was awarded an Empire Gallantry Medal on the 30th of June 1924 for his bravery, this was later changed to a George Cross in 1940 when the award was instituted. Because the ship was only four hundred yards from the shore some of the crew attempted to make their own way to landfall but sadly even with the efforts of the lifeboat crews 84 members of the ship's compliment perished out of a total of 229. | |
| Rollesby SS | [Tony Allen:]Rollesby, 3.955 grt, defensively armed, was built in 1906 by Ropner & Son, Stockton who owned the vessel. She was captured and sunk by torpedo by the German U-boat U-48 on September 15th 1917, 80 miles ENE from Muckle Flugga, Shetland Isles. | |
| Rolling Stones | Sunk (plan MELLICK) | |
| Romanie | [Tony Allen:]Romanie was a steel three masted motor schooner | |
| Romeo SS | [Tony Allen:]Romeo was a 1,730grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 3 March 1918 when 7 miles South from Mull of Galloway she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. 29 lives lost including Master. | |
| Romsdalen SS | [Tony Allen:]Romsdalen, 2.548grt, defensively-armed, 17 February 1917, 10 miles SW from Portland Bill, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine. | |
| Rondo SS | [HSAC:]Rondo SS; 2.363 ton British standard ship, built as War Wonder in Florida, 1918, taken over by US Government and renamed Lithopolis (1918), renamed Laurie (1930), then Rondo (1934). 264ft x 42ft. 1200hp triple-expansion engines. In ballast, Glasgow for Oslo. Sunk: 25 January, 1935, after drifting in Sound of Mull during a blizzard and striking islet of Dearg Sgeir. Attempts to pull her off all failed. Salvage crews started to strip her. Several weeks later slipped off reef bow first. | |
| Rontegui SS | Ran aground on rocks. | |
| Roode Zee | [Diving Sussex:]468 ton Dutch tug, torpedoed on 24th April 1944 by E-Boat, 15 died. | |
| Roompot (De) | Three-masted dutch East-Indiaman, built 1842, by shipyard ''De Goede Intentie'' for De Crane, Zierikzee. De Roompot was on voyage from Birma to The Netherlands with a full cargo of rice, when on 29th June, she was approaching her destination. Two unexperienced guiders came aboard to guide the ship through the dangereous sandbanks. Not long after that, De Roompot was grounded on a sand bank. As the ship was taking lots of water, captain De Boer decided to abandon ship. 3 crew drowned when their lifeboat capsized. De Roompot got loose from the sandbank, and started drifting the next day, until she finally sunk on 1st July 1853. Ironically, the ship sunk in an area known as 'De Roompot'', a few miles from her destination. | |
| Rosalie SS | [Stuart Wilson] SS Rosalie; 1914 by W. Gray & Co. Ltd. for New Ruperra Steam Shipping Co. Ltd.; triple expansion engine. She was torpedoed on 10th August 1915 by UB-10, having sunk earlier that month SS Fulgens. In the hope to save her, she was towed to the beach, but she was found to be a total loss. | |
| Rose Hill | [Tony Allen:]Rose Hill. 200 ton iron barquentine, lost in collision in 1900 off the Isle of Wight. | |
| Rose Marie SS | [Tony Allen:]Rose Marie SS, a 2.220 grt defensively armed merchant steamer was torpedoed without warning by a submarine on 5 January 1918, 13 miles SE from N Arklow Light Vessel, Ireland. 1 killed. | |
| Rosehill SS | [Tony Allen:] Rosehill SS, armed merchantship; built in 1911 by S.P. Austin and Son of Sunderland. She was first launched as the 'Minster' by her owners Stephen Clarke and Company. She was 314 feet long with a gross tonnage of 2788 tons. The Minster was fitted with a triple expansion engine made by the Sunderland firm of NorthEastern Marine Engineering. In 1914 she was sold to a Welsh Steamship Company called W.J. Tillet and was renamed the Rosehill. At the outbreak of the First World War, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a collier and armed with a small gun. On route from Cardiff to Devonport, she was torpedoed by UB-40, September 23rd 1917, 5 miles SW by S from Fowey, Cornwall. | |
| Røsten | [Tony Allen:]Røsten. Built in Norrköping 1920. Previous name: Gripen. The eastbound coastal convoy WP-183, escorted by the destroyer Brocklesby was in Lyme Bay between Dartmouth and Portland when the 2nd S-Flottille with 7 E-boats attacked shortly after midnight on July 9th 1942. Røsten, on a voyage from Barry (departed Barry Dock on July 7) to Shoreham with coal was torpedoed, port side, by S-109, Cmdr. Dross at 01:45 and as she sank immediately, the people on board had to jump overboard. | |
| Rostock | [Tony Allen:]Rostock, German, Karlsruhe class Light Cruiser. Lost in the Battle of Jutland. | |
| Rotorua | [HSAC:]Built by Wm.Denny, Dumbarton she was launched on 9th July 1910 for the New Zealand Shipping Co, 11.140 ton, triple-screw three-deck liner, one funnel, two masts, 14knots, 484ftx62ft. Armed: 4.7 in on stern. There was accommodation for 52-1st, 72-2nd, 156-3rd and 280-emigrant class passengers. 5.600 tons general New Zealand goods, Wellington via Newport News for London, 238 passengers. Sunk: 22 March, 1917, 20 miles from Start Point, Devon, by torpedo from UC-17. One crew-member was killed. | |
| Rotorua SS | [Tony Allen:]The Rotorua was formerly called the 'Stropshire 11'. She was a steam freighter built in 1911 for the New Zealand Shipping Cpy. She was on route from LYTTELTON and HALIFAX for AVONMOUTH carrying 10803 ton refrigerated and general goods when she was torpedoed without warning by U-96 and sunk on the 11th December 1940. 21 crew were lost. | |
| Rotterdam I SS | Built by Henderson, Coulborn & Co in Renfrew; 1.694 tons; 81,8x10,7x8,7m; One four-cylinder compound steam engine; 1,300 hp; 10,5kn; 8 first class, 288 third class, 46 crew. Launched on June 6th, 1872 for Plate, Reuchlin & Co., she was transferred to the NASM on April 18th, 1873, where she became the flagship of the company. Rotterdam (capt J. Hus) ran ashore on the coast of the island Schouwen on September 26th 1883 during her 65th voyage from New York to Rotterdam. The ship broke in two on October 12th and the wreck was sold on October 29th 1883. (painting by Stephen Card) | |
| Roway | British Dredger of 110 tons, 90 ftx19 ft. Sunk: 1967, Freak wave. | |
| Roxburgh Castle | [Tony Allen:]Roxburgh Castle, wooden ship of 1.121 grt, built at Sunderland, 1852. She measured 182.5x34.5x22.1 ft. She was lost on the Goodwin Sands, on 5 January 1872 while on her way out to Melbourne. | |
| Royal Adelaide | Built 1865 by William Patterson at Bristol (sister ship to the Royal Sovereign). Royal Adelaide was en voyage from London to Sydney with 70 crew and passengers, general cargo, including ammunition and Dutch Gin, when - due to a gale- she struck Chesil beach on 25th November 1872. Coming broadside on the beach, the waves hurling her only ablout 20 yards from the feet of the people who were assembled to render assistance. All but six on board rescued by Breeches Buoy. Casks of Gin were thrown up onto beach, and locals went wild and drank from them. 4 were dead next day having passed out and died from exposure. | |
| Royal Anne | The Royal Anne, built at Woolwich and launched in 1709, was a fifth rate and the last oared fighting ship built for the Royal Navy. She was carrying Lord Belhaven, the new Governor of Barbados, to the West Indies in 1721, but when bad weather forced her to return to port in Falmouth and she was wrecked on the Stag Rocks. The site was discovered by members of the Southwest Branch of the Nautical Archaeology Society in 1992, and artefacts raised include cutlery bearing Lord Belhaven's family crest. (The painting probably depicts the 'Royal Anne' arriving with the Queen of Portugal at Spithead) | |
| Royal Arthur | [Tony Allen:]Royal Arthur was owned by the Merchant Trading Cpy of Liverpool. Grossed 1.380 tons. She was carrying a cargo of wheat, 200 tons of copper and silver ore and walrus tusks. Bound from San Francisco for Liverpool when she struck rocks below Hook Tower during a gale. | |
| Royal Charter SS | [HSAC:]The Royal Charter SS, a 2.719 ton iron auxiliary steamship was built 1854 for Gibbs Bright & Company. She measured 235ftx41ft. Armed. On 26 August 1859 under Captain Taylor, she left Melbourne for home with 500 passengers and crew, 68.397 ounces of gold and £48.000 in sovereigns. After a record run of fifty-five days she reached Queenstown, Ireland. As she left Holyhead rough weather was working up and when off Point Lynas (north Anglesey, Wales), hurricane force winds and giant seas forced her towards the rocky coast as she searched in vain for a pilot. For a while she used the engines to help her anchors hold her while the masts were cut away, but the cables parted, the rigging from her fallen masts tangled around her propeller shaft, and just before dawn on 25 October she went ashore in Moelfre Bay on the east coast of Anglesey, Wales. Only 27 men managed to reach shore. 459 persons, including her master were drowned. A four sided memorial stone pedestal stands in the tiny church of Lianallgo in Angelsey, north-west Wales. | |
| Royal Fusilier SS | [HSAC:]Royal Fusilier SS, 2.187 ton British steamer, built 1924. 285ftx39ft. 50 tons rice, 70 tons paper, London for Leith. Sunk: 3 June, 1941, after bombing by German aircraft in Firth of Forth, capsized under tow. All crew saved. | |
| Royal George HMS | The tragic loss of the Royal George in August 1782 with the terrible loss of life was a body blow for the Navy, then during the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815) over 13,000 seamen died in either shipwreck or accidents, an appalling figure, which was double those killed as a result of enemy action, and during this period no less than 101 Naval vessels were destroyed by accidental causes. For instance during 1799 no less than 19 Naval ships were lost by either wrecking or fire. | |
| Royal Oak HMS | Battleship, Captain Cmdr W.H. Benn. In the early hours of this date sunk in Scapa Flow by German U-47. 833 lives lost. | |
| Royal Scott SS | gebouwd 1930 London & Edinburgh shipping company | |
| Royal Sovereign SS | [Tony Allen:]Royal Sovereign; Built by W. Denny & Bros Ltd of Dumbarton, Scotland for the New Medway Steam Packet Co. Came into service in 1937. Requisioned by the Royal Navy as a transport ship. Sunk by a mine in the Bristol Channel whilst on Operation Dynamo. | |
| Royallo HMS | [Other Source:]Minesweeper of 248 tons, 120.5ftx22ftx12.2 ft. Sunk: 1940. Mined. [Tony Allen:] Vessel was formely a trawler converted to a minesweeper. | |
| Røyksund SS | [Tony Allen:]Røyksund. Delivered in May-1919 from N. V. Machf. & Scheepswerf van P. Smit jr., Rotterdam as Marguerite Pry to owners in Amsterdam, 756 gt, 975 tdwt, 182.2' x 28' x 12.9', Triple exp. 116 nhp (P. Smit jr.). From 1921 she sailed as Alfriston of London. Purchased in 1930 by J. Henning Thuestad, renamed Røyksund (R-145-H), registered for D/S A/S Røyksund. Sold in July-1933 to D/S A/S Fraktfart (Sigvald Risanger), Haugesund. Remeasured 1935 - 695 gt, 1.000 tdwt. Departed Cowes, Isle of Wight on May 22-1941 in ballast for Newport Mon. in convoy, via Dathmouth and Falmouth for orders - left Falmouth on May 27th 1941. That same night, when the convoy was between Trevose Head and Hartland Point, North Cornwall at about 11 p.m., an aircraft was seen heading straight for Røyksund. Her 4 British gunners opened fire but one of them was killed immediately by the machine gun fire from the aircraft, and about half a minute later a bomb detonated in the engine room, killing 3 men and causing extensive damage. 2 explosions were heard. The 1st engineer, who was asleep in his cabin got up to find his door blocked, but the 2nd explosion opened it again. By the time he got out water was already filling his cabin. All the lifeboats on the starboard side were blown away, and the ship sank almost immediately, forcing the crew to jump overboard. Some grabbed a hold of two rafts that floated up while others kept afloat on lifebelts until the escort arrived and picked them all up within 15-20 minutes. 3 were presumed drowned. | |
| RTC-9 bow | RTC No.9 was a steam steel hopper barge, 102 ftx28 ft draught 12 ft and 317 tons. She was hit by H.M.S. Endymion. | |
| RTC-9 stern | RTC No.9 was a steam steel hopper barge, 102 ftx28 ft draught 12 ft and 317 tons. She was hit by H.M.S. Endymion. | |
| Rubaan SS | Steam Collier of 324 tons, 130.2ftx22.6 ftx9.6ft. Sunk: 1939. Ran Aground. | |
| Rubio SS | [Tony Allen:]Rubio was a 2,395grt defensively-armed British Merchant Steamer. On the 25 February 1918 when 4 miles N ½ E from Shipwash Light Vessel she hit mine and sank. | |
| Rudolf SS | [Tony Allen:]Built by Wolf, Skinner & Co, Newcastle on Tyne, ex Småland, ex Skeffington. Owned by Skibs-A/S Sandøy (Larsen, S A), registered Oslo. Bought 1915 and renamed Rudolf. Torpedoed and sunk by U-46, Capt Sohler on December 21st 1939, in position 58 07N 01 32E, when on a voyage from Gothenburg to the UK in ballast. (Norway was still neutral at this time). | |
| Rudolf SS | [Tony Allen:]Rudolf SS, on route from West Hartlepool to Malmo with 2.760 tons of coal, was torpedoed by U-56. 9 dead. | |
| Rudolf Wahrendorf | Ammunition carrier (Island of Sark). | |
| Ruel SS | [Tony Allen:]Captured & sunk 45 miles SW of Bishop Rock, English Channel by German submarine U-38. 1 life lost. | |
| Rundae SS | 262ft Posibly Built around 1900 Norwegian Steamer, Sunk: Mistery | |
| Rundo SS | [Tony Allen:]Rundo SS (ex-St Emilion), a 1.112 grt merchant steamer was torpedoed by submarine UC-65, while on passage from Skien to Rouen. | |
| Runo SS | [Tony Allen:]Runo was a 1,679grt Merchantship. On the 5 September 1914, about 22 miles E by N from the River Tyne, UK, she was mined and sunk, 29 lives lost. | |
| Runswick SS | [Tony Allen:]Runswick was a 3.060 grt defensively-armed Merchant Steamer. On the 18 April 1918 when 3 miles North from Trevose Head, Cornwall, she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine. | |
| Rupert | [Tony Allen:]Rupert; 482 tons; 135x30 ft; Built in 1943 as a tug. On the 24th January 1945, she was sunk in collision at 51°03N 01°32E | |
| Rups | Tug was sunk during the Delta works. She was towing utility vessels having a load of 18.000 tons of reinforcing stones. | |
| Russell HMS | The victim of a mine laid by the German submarine U73 not far from Malta. 124 crew were lost but thankfully she sank close enough to Malta for many small boats to get out to her to assist in the rescue of survivors. 625 were saved. | |
| Ruth | [Hugo Raven:] Dit wrak moet de RUTH zijn, een zweeds vrachtschip Ong. 120 mtr. lang 3.726 ton. Gezonken na een luchtaanval in de nacht van 7/8 mei 1942. | |
| Ryder SS | [Tony Allen:]Ryder SS was lost off Portland, English Channel. | |