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Dalton - a general history

Completed January 1904; Official No. 115163: Code Letters VNFL.

Owners: January 1904 Webster & Barraclough, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1909-17 A Hope.

Bound from Salonica for Malta in ballast Dalton was torpedoed by German submarine (kuk U-29 Leo Prasil) & sank 25 miles S by W of Cape Matapan on 10 April 1917. Master made prisoner. Three lives lost.

Lives lost April 1917;

Allen, T, fireman, 45, b. Liverpool

Johansson, George, donkeyman, 40, b. Sweden, resided Newport, Monmouthshire

Wardle, John William, 2nd engineer, 46, b. Hartlepool, resided Bradford

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