Hilda R.
| Name | Hilda R. |
| Type | Sailing vessel
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| GRT | 136 tons |
| Country |  British |
| Built | 1910
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| Builder | ?, La Have, Nova Scotia
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| Operator | John. T McRae, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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| History | Wooden schooner.
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U-boat attacks on Sailing vessel Hilda R.
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
| 1 | 5 Nov 1917 | U 63 (Otto Schultze) | Sunk | Shelled and sunk off S coast of Portugal, SE Cape St Vincent
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| Grady (Labrador) - Gibraltar
| dry codfish
| 1
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| The vessel was under command of Captain Yetman when they were attacked by U63. Order was given to abandon the ship in the 2 boats. In the first one, 3 of the crew pulled away in direction of the coast where they landed safely 17 hours later. The remaining 2, the Captain and a boy (the 3rd one having felt overboard and drowned), were finally recovered by the submarine and taken on board for safety. They were ultimately landed 3 days later on the spanish coast from where they joined Gibraltar. The story of this sinking has been accounted in the Sea Breezes magazine, August 1930.
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