Ships hit during WWI

Leontine

NameLeontine
TypeSailing vessel
GRT201 tons
Country  French
Built
Builder
OperatorCotton, St. Nazaire
HistoryWooden brigantine previously known as Clio. The vessel is first listed in the 1882 Mercantile Navy List with the where and when built fields listed as ”no information received.” First registered in Androssan, so possibly built there.

Previously owned by A. Kohler & Co., St. Brieuc.



U-boat attacks on Sailing vessel Leontine


DateU-boatLoss typePositionLocationRouteCargoCasualties
125 Mar 1917UC 36 (Gustav Buch)SunkShelled and scuttled 5 miles S of Ile de Groix



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