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Candidate
Harrison Line
Length:
398 ft.
Breadth:
51 ft.
Draft (or Depth):
26 ft.
Tonnage:
5,858 (gross); 3,826 (net)
Engines:
Speed:
Builder:
Chas. Connell & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
Launched:
Maiden Voyage:
Disposition:
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Particulars:
Port of Registry: Flag of Registry: British Funnel color: Company flag: Signal Letters: Wireless call letters: Details: Single funnel, four masts
Relationship to Lusitania disaster / inquiry.
Vessel shelled by U-20, the same boat that would torpedo and sink the Lusitania. This news was not passed on to Lusitania.
Data:
May 6, 1915
Shelled and sunk by U-20,
20 miles SE of Conninbeg Light vessel, Waterford, Ireland;
0 lives lost. U-20 would torpedo and sink the Lusitania the following day.
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