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Ariel

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1902 Ariel Rickinson Sons & Co.

Fate

The West Hartlepool-owned steamship Ariel was torpedoed and sunk by UB-105 (Rudolf Petersen), off the coast of Algeria on October 10th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Sfax, Tunisia, to Gibraltar with a cargo of phosphates. No lives were lost.

 

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