Aspenleaf
Name | Aspenleaf |
Type | Tanker
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GRT | 7,535 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1900
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Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co., Ltd., Glasgow
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Operator | Lane & MacAndrew, Ltd., London (crown nominees)
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History | Built as a passenger steamer but after serving as a dummy battleship for the Royal Navy early in World War I, converted into a tanker in 1916.
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U-boat attacks on Tanker Aspenleaf
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 30 Dec 1916 | UC 16 (Egon von Werner) | Damaged | Mined off of the Owers LV.
| 50° 37'N, 0° 34'W
| Port Arthur - Portsmouth
| oil fuel
| 0
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Position of attack on Aspenleaf
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