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Rowena

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1899 Rowena Herskind & Co.

Fate

Under Captain W. Phippen bound from Alexandria for Hull with a general cargo she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-84 (Walter Roehr), south-west off the Scilly Isles on April 18th, 1917. One crewman was lost.

Massingham, Walter, fireman/trimmer, 51, b. King’s Lynn.

 

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