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Claremont - a general history

Completed December 1904: Official No. 119861: Code Letters HBRC.

Owners: 1904 Horsley Line (MH Horsley) West Hartlepool; 1915 Plisson SN Co Ltd, London-renamed Messidor.

Masters: 1909 C Jobson.

Bound from Blyth via Brest for Quiberon with a cargo of coal she was attacked by a German submarine & damaged on 17 January 1918.

Bound from Manchester for Civitavecchia with a cargo of coal Messidor was torpedoed by German submarine (UB-50 Heinrich Kukat) & sank 73 miles SW of Port Mahon on 23 July 1918. One life lost.

Life lost; Llanilos, Juan, 41, b. Peru

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