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Birkhall

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1900 Birkhall West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company Limited
1916 Birkhall Houlder Bros. & Co.
1917 Birkhall Leith, Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co.

Fate

On a voyage from Salonica to Alexandria with government cargo vessel Birkhall was torpedoed by German submarine (UC-23 Hans Georg Lubbe) & sank four miles SE of Cape Doro, Greece on 23 January 1918. Two lives lost.

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