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Greenbank - a general history

Completed February 1905; Official No. 119864: Code Letters HBVN.

Owners: 1905 Horsley Line Ltd (H Horsley mgr, Surtees Street) West Hartlepool; 1915 George B Harland & Co, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1905-06 A Brown; 1909 MG Harrison; 1915-8 E Witten.

Bound from Cardiff for Alexandria with a cargo of coal Greenbank was torpedoed by German submarine (U-33 Gustav Sieb) & sank 12 miles north of Cape Falcon, Algeria in 36.00N/00.50W on 3 June 1917. One life lost.

Life lost; Farrell, George, fireman, 37, Liverpool

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