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Iona

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1889 Iona Herskind & Woods
1911 General Radetzky Seeberg Bros.
1894 Iona Herskind & Co.

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-41 (Claus Hansen) in the North Sea on July 17th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Archangel to London with a cargo of timber. No lives were lost.

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