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Dulcie

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1900 Dulcie Hans C. Nielsen & Co.

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-13 (Walter Gustav Becker), 6 miles east of Aldeburgh, on June 19th, 1915.

The Dulcie was proceeding at 8 knots off Orford Ness Suffolk. At 7.30am a violent explosion in the forward end of stokehold occurred, the ship lists to port and finally disappears at 9.45am. One Fireman was killed (54-year old Peter Johnson) and the remaining crew were picked up by the steamer Shoreham and landed at Yarmouth.

The ship was on a voyage from Dunston to Havre with a cargo of 3,000 tons of coal. 

 

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