Santee
Name | Santee |
Type | Q-ship
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GRT | 2,729 tons |
Country | American |
Built | 1905
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Builder | Richardson, Duck & Co., Stockton
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Operator | U.S. Navy
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History | A steamer of the Venedotian SS. Co., Ltd. (O. & W. Williams & Co.), Cardiff that the Royal Navy requisition (August 1917) and later purchased (November 1917) for use as a Q-ship. Transferred to the U.S. Navy temporarily, later returned to the Royal Navy. Sold postwar.
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U-boat attacks on Q-ship Santee
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 27 Dec 1917 | U 61 (Victor Dieckmann) | Damaged | off Queenstown, Ireland
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