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Mantinea

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1896 Mantinea W. Thomson & Co.
1909 Onesta Beraldo & Devoto

Fate

The steamship Onesta was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-63 (Karsten von Heydebreck), near the Inner Dowsing Light Vessel, on August 7th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Newcastle to Genoa with a cargo of coal.

West Hartlepool-born Albert Ernest Kennedy, a Deep Sea Pilot, was lost.

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