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Richmond

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1907 Richmond Chesapeake & Ohio
1914 Dront West Russian S.S. Co.
1908 Richmond Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.

Fate

On a voyage from Archangel with a cargo of timber the Russian steamer Dront was torpedoed by German submarine U-28 (George Schmidt) & sank 106 miles NW by N of North Cape on 1 September 1917.

 

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