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Lesreaulx

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1894 Lesreaulx Morel & Co.
1916 Bayreaulx Bay Steamship Co.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-63 (Otto Schultze), off south-west Ireland, on October 23rd, 1916. The ship had sailed from Cardiff on the 20th, bound for Montreal in ballast. All 23 crew were lost. On December 9th, an empty, damaged lifeboat was washed ashore near Aberystwyth. Master Frederick W. Thompson.

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