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Llanwern

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1906 Llanwern Llanwern S.S. Co. Ltd.
1912 Lady Ninian Redcroft S.N. Co. Ltd.

Fate

Sunk by the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), 106 miles off Algiers, on April 28th, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Newport News to Livorno with a cargo of oats and steel rails. One crewman was lost.

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