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Easingwold

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1898 Easingwold Pyman Bros.
1917 P.L.M. 10 Cie des Chemins de Fer de Paris a Lyon et la Mediterranee
1928 Angele Mabro G & T. Mabro

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by U-30 (Fritz-Julius Lemp) in the Bay of Biscay on July 6th, 1940, with the loss of all 25 crew. The ship had sailed from Bilbao on July 3rd, 1940, bound for Cardiff with a cargo of iron ore. Master Alexander Kilikas.

From 1916, as the P.L.M. the ship was under the management of the Soc. Nationale d'Affrements, based in Paris.

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