Moldavia
Name | Moldavia |
Type | Armed merchant cruiser
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GRT | 9,500 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1903
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Builder | Caird & Co., Greenock
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Operator | Royal Navy
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History | Peace-time operator: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Greenock
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U-boat attacks on Armed merchant cruiser Moldavia
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 23 May 1918 | UB 57 (Johannes Lohs) | Sunk | Torpedoed off Beachy Head
| 50° 24'N, 0° 26'W
| Halifax- ?
| troops and stores
| 57
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| Armed merchant cruiser operating as a troopship at the time she was sunk. The casualties were among American troops being embarked. Moldavia had sailed from Halifax on 11 May 1917 as ocean escort to convoy HC1.
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Position of attack on Moldavia
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