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Guernsey

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1890 Guernsey Nielsen & Gray
1897 Cimbria Hecksher & Son
1910 Gurre C.K. Hansen
1917 Gurre DS AS Patria

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-59 (Wilhelm Freiherr von Fircks), in the North Sea, on March 20th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Galveston to Aalborg with a cargo of oil seed cake. Twenty-four crew were lost. Master  N.P. Nielsen.

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