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Britannic

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1898 Britannic Cockerline & Co. Ltd.
1899 Lomas A. Holland & Co.

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), some 56 miles west of the Scilly Isles, on June 30th, 1915. One crewman was lost:

Cunningham, William Pearl, 2nd mate, 58, b. Glasgow.

 

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