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Thorpwood

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1912 Thorpwood Constantine & Pickering S.S. Co.

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), off Crete, on October 8th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from the Tyne to the Mediterranean with a cargo of coal. No lives were lost. Master H.C. Jorgensen.

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