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Daybreak

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1911 Daybreak Wood & Co.
1915 Daybreak Scarisbrick S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

The West Hartlepool-registered steamship Daybreak was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-87, (Rudolf Freiherr von Speth-Schulzburg) off the South Rock Light vessel, Northern Ireland, on December 24th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Huelva, Spain, to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore. Twenty-one crew members were lost including the Master, S.T. Pope.

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