Ships hit during WWI

Frans

NameFrans
TypeSteamer
GRT134 tons
Country  Swedish
Built1870
BuilderE.W. Heggblad, Norrköping
OperatorA. Burman
History

U-boat attacks on Steamer Frans


DateU-boatLoss typePositionLocationRouteCargoCasualties
13 Nov 1916U 22 (Karl Scherb)SunkStopped and sunk by gunnery and a scuttling charge 14 miles off Raumo
61° 03'N, 20° 33'E
Stockholm - Raumo
general cargo
0

Cargo included iron wire, iron bars, telephone material, separators, horseshoe nails, pumice, coffe and tomfat, a kind of oil. Master: J. V. Englund

Position of attack on Frans


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