Ships hit during WWI

Kiew


Photo courtesy of Danish Maritime Museum, Elsinore

NameKiew
Typesteamer
GRT1,115 tons
Country  Danish
Built1881
BuilderBurmeister & Wain, Copenhagen
OperatorDet Forenede Dampskibs Selsk., Copenhagen
History

U-boat attacks on steamer Kiew


DateU-boatLoss typePositionLocationRouteCargoCasualties
122 Jun 1915U 32 (Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim)prizeNorth Sea



0

Taken as prize and apparently released. Taken as prize again by surface ship on January 18, 1916 and retained.


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