Batavier V
Name | Batavier V |
Type | Passenger steamer
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GRT | 1,569 tons |
Country | Dutch |
Built | 1902
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Builder | Gourlay Bros. & Co., Dundee
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Operator | Wm. H. Müller & Co’s. Algemeene Scheepv. Mij. (W. H. Müller & Co.), Rotterdam
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History |
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U-boat attacks on Passenger steamer Batavier V
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 18 Mar 1915 | U 28 (Georg-Günther von Forstner) | prize | Hoofden area
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| 0
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| Taken as prize to Zeebruge but later released by a prize court.
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2 | 16 May 1916 | UC 6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow) | Sunk | Mined 0,5 mile E of the North Buoy, Inner Gabbard 5158N 015745E
| 51° 58'N, 1° 58'E
| London - Rotterdam
| passengers & general cargo
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Position of attack on Batavier V
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