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Heighington

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1890 Heighington Hudson Shipping Co. Ltd
1895 Heighington Guthe & Co.
1899 Heighington West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company Limited

Fate

Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-35, 40 miles north-east of Cape Serat, Tunisia, on August 1st, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Naples to Oran in ballast. No lives were lost. Master J. Hodgson.

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