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Welbury

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1907 Welbury Hogg & Co.
1913 Welbury Bury Shipping Co. Ltd.

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-24 (Rudolf Schneider) 40 miles west of Fastnet, on July 1st, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Kingstown, Jamaica, to Queenstown for orders, with a cargo of sugar. No lives were lost. Master R. Newton.

 

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