Louvain
Name | Louvain |
Type | Armed boarding steamer
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GRT | 1,830 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1897
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Builder | Earle’s SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull
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Operator | Royal Navy
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History | Peace-time operator: Great Eastern Railway Company, Harwich
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U-boat attacks on Armed boarding steamer Louvain
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 20 Jan 1918 | UC 22 (Carl Bünte) | Sunk | Torpedoed and sunk in the Kelos Strait, Aegean Sea
| 37° 38'N, 24° 10'E
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| troops
| 224
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Position of attack on Louvain
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