Wallace
Name | Wallace |
Type | Steamer
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GRT | 3,930 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1905
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Builder | Short Bros., Ltd., Sunderland
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Operator | Taylor & Sanderson Steam Shipping Co., Ltd. (Taylor & Sanderson), Sunderland
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History | Sold to English SS. Co., Ltd. (Letricheux & David, Ltd.), Swansea in 1917.
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U-boat attacks on Steamer Wallace
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 7 Feb 1917 | U 54 (Volkhard von Bothmer) | Damaged | Damaged by gunfire after which crew abandoned ship.
| 50° 30'N, 15° 05'W
| New York - Havre
| general cargo
| 1
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| Chief officer taken prisoner. U 54 was unable to sink the steamer as the Q-ship sloop Salvia arrived on the scene.
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Position of attack on Wallace
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