Ships hit during WWI

Limeleaf

NameLimeleaf
TypeTanker
GRT7,339 tons
Country  British
Built1916
BuilderBarclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow
OperatorThe Shipping Controller (Lane & Macandrew), London
HistoryConverted while under construction into a tanker.

U-boat attacks on Tanker Limeleaf


DateU-boatLoss typePositionLocationRouteCargoCasualties
119 Apr 1917UB 40 (Hans Howaldt)DamagedTorpedoed 10 miles E of the Owers LV.

Port Arthur - Sheerness
fuel oil
7

Limeleaf was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker (under civil management at the time of the attack by UB 40).


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