This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.
Masters: 1894-96 W Maclean: 1897 RJ Dosser: 1899-1903 JW Tindall: 1905 G Marronati: 1906 G Mavromati: 1907-08 A Bajiotis: 1908-16 Th. Theotocatas.
On a voyage from Patrus for Messina the vessel was about 80 miles from Zante on 4 December 1915 when a shot was fired from an Austrian submarine Spetzai stopped & the master was ordered aboard the submarine. When the Austrians discovered that Captain Stanley Wilson MP & Colonel Napier, a former military attaché, were aboard Spetzai they were ordered aboard the submarine & detained.
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