Limeleaf
Name | Limeleaf |
Type | Tanker
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GRT | 7,339 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1916
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Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow
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Operator | The Shipping Controller (Lane & Macandrew), London
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History | Converted while under construction into a tanker.
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U-boat attacks on Tanker Limeleaf
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 19 Apr 1917 | UB 40 (Hans Howaldt) | Damaged | Torpedoed 10 miles E of the Owers LV.
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| Port Arthur - Sheerness
| fuel oil
| 7
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| Limeleaf was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker (under civil management at the time of the attack by UB 40).
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