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Ariadne

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1891 Ariadne Rodocanachi Sons
1904 Basilios Cosadinos T.A. Skouses
1907 Spetzai Coutzis Bros.

Fate

On September 8th, 1916, on a voyage from Cyprus to Liverpool, the Spetzai was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-47 (Wolfgang Steinbauer), 60 miles west of Cape Matapan. The 2nd Engineer and a seaman were picked up by patrol yacht and remainder of crew saved by a French destroyer. No lives were lost. Master Th. Theotocatas.

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