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Holgate

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1895 Holgate Pyman Bros.
1916 Holgate Hansen Bros. Ltd.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-57 (Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg), off south-west Ireland, on March 27th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Almeria, Spain, to Barrow with a cargo of iron ore. No lives were lost.

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