Sterope
| Name | Sterope |
| Type | Steamer
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| GRT | 9,500 tons |
| Country |  Italian |
| Built | 1905
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| Builder | Fratelli Orlando, Livorno
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| Operator | Royal Italian Navy
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| History | Combination tanker and cargo vessel. Per Spindler, an armed merchant cruiser but more likely just an armed mercnat ship.
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U-boat attacks on Steamer Sterope
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
| 1 | 7 Apr 1918 | U 155 (Erich Eckelmann) | Sunk | Surrendered after a gunnery battle off the Azores and then scuttled
| 38° 44'N, 18° 09'W
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| naphtha
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Position of attack on Sterope
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