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Roanoke

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1906 Roanoke Chesapeake & Ohio
1907 Clan MacInnes Cayzer, Irvine & Co.
1911 Clan MacInnes The Clan Line Steamers Ltd.
1914 Roanoke Furness Withy & Co. Ltd.

Fate

The British steamship Roanoke was sunk by the German submarine UB-48 (Wolfgang Steinbauer), off north-west Scotland, on August 12th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Leith to for Philadelphia with a general cargo. No lives were lost, however, the Master was taken prisoner aboard the U-boat.

 

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