Ships hit during WWI

Amethyst

NameAmethyst
TypeFishing vessel (smack)
GRT57 tons
Country  British
Built1901
Builder?, Lowestoft
OperatorFrederick Thomas Dewing, Lowestoft
HistoryFishing registration: LT 405

U-boat attacks on Fishing vessel (smack) Amethyst


DateU-boatLoss typePositionLocationRouteCargoCasualties
113 Aug 1915UC 5 (Herbert Pustkuchen)Sunk7 miles ESE of Lowestoft



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Apparently, though only on a map in Spindler, not in the text. Recorded in BVLAS as captured and sunk by bomb.


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