HMS Bergamot was an Anchusa-class sloop of the Royal Navy, which had a short career during World War I. Built by Armstrong Whitworth, the ship was laid...
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HMS Bergamot after the bergamot flower. HMS Bergamot (1917), an Anchusa-class sloop launched in May 1917 and sunk in August of that year by U-84. HMS Bergamot (K189)...
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HMS Dunraven was a Q-Ship of the Royal Navy during World War I. On 8 August 1917, 130 miles southwest of Ushant in the Bay of Biscay, disguised as the...
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Commission. Retrieved 27 January 2015. "Colin Francis Creswell 1894 - 1917 and HMS Implacable and Sub E-47". ahoy.tk-jk.net. Ahoy - Mac's Web Log. Retrieved...
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Austria-Hungary and Germany but faced losses of up to 800 men. Royal Navy ship HMS Bergamot was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by German submarine SM U-84...
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SMS Seeadler (1888) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
capturing and sinking 15 ships in 225 days until she was wrecked, in 2 August 1917, in French Polynesia. The ship was launched as Pass of Balmaha by Robert...
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SS Belgian Prince (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
against Austria-Hungary and its allies in 1914. U-55 sank Belgian Prince in 1917. Her crew survived the sinking, but U-55's commander Wilhelm Werner murdered...
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torpedoed and sunk off Inishtrahull, by a German submarine (SM U-53) in 1917; the later SS Athenia, was similarly attacked in 1939. Athenia was built...
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SS Devonian (1900) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
defensive armament. Two Royal Navy gunners were transferred from the dreadnought HMS Queen Elizabeth to Devonian to form the nucleus of her gun crew. In Boston...
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July 1918. Bergamot, built by Armstrong Whitworth, launched 5 May 1917. Sunk by the German submarine U-84 in the Atlantic 13 August 1917. Candytuft,...
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HMHS Letitia (1912) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
that ran aground at Portuguese Cove in Halifax Harbour, Canada on 1 August 1917 while carrying 546 wounded Canadian soldiers from Liverpool, United Kingdom...
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SS Matunga (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
Choiseul Plantations Ltd. While en route from Sydney to Rabaul, on 6 August 1917 she was captured by the German raiding ship SMS Wolf. The coal was transferred...
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December 2012. "Arcangelo Michele". Uboat.net. Retrieved 19 December 2012. "HMS Bergamot". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 October 2012. "Emilie Galline". Uboat.net....
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SS Noordam (1902) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
and her forepeak was flooded, but she reached Dover safely. On 3 August 1917 Noordam was en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Rotterdam when she struck...
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SS Delphic (1897) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
the Second Boer War. World War I did not disturb her service until March 1917, when she was requisitioned to serve in the war effort. It was during a crossing...
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convoy was defended by escort ships and the aircraft of the escort carrier HMS Avenger which used signals intelligence gleaned from Ultra and Luftwaffe...
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USS Arvilla (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
commission from 1917 to 1919. Arvilla was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Joe Fellows at Wilmington, Delaware. In 1917, the U.S. Navy...
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USS Nemes (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
July 1917 and sunk in August 1917. Nemes was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1909 by Van Deise at Camden, New Jersey. On 10 July 1917, the...
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Japanese cruiser Otowa (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
Tsushima, she landed marines to help quell the disturbances. On 25 July 1917, when en route from Yokosuka to Sasebo Naval District, Otowa ran aground...
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SS Esemplare (1902) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
ship was captured and scuttled by the German submarine SM UC-27 in August 1917. Esemplare had an overall length of 224.7 feet (68.5 m), with a beam of 34...
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SS Oslo (1906) (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
outrunning her assailant and making it safely to her destination. On 21 August 1917, Oslo was en route from Trondheim, Norway to Liverpool, United Kingdom while...
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SM UC-41 (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
engagement on 15 August 1917. However this was actually UC-63, the logs of which record the event. UC-41 was lost on 21 August 1917 after suffering an unexplained...
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SM UC-72 (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-72 disappeared after 21 August 1917. The wreck of UC-72 was identified by marine archaeologist Innes McCartney...
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USS Elfrida (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
seriously injured two others on 25 August 1917. The Navy ordered Elfrida to be demobilized at the end of 1917. She was decommissioned for the last time...
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SM UC-44 (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
on 4 August 1917; its commander, Kurt Teppenjohanns, was the only survivor. UC-44's wreck was raised by the Royal Navy in September 1917 and later broken...
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with 140-240 rounds. U-84 - U-86 on the other hand had two 8.8 cm guns. In 1917 U-84 - U-86 were refitted with a single 10.5 cm gun (240 rounds) Type U 81...
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SM U-44 (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
Northabout to Channel approach, was possibly submarine which torpedoed HMS Begonia. Sank 5 S.S., 2 sailing vessels. 17 May – 3 June 1916. North Sea...
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corvettes Bergamot, Bluebell, Bryony and Camellia, minesweepers Gleaner, Harrier and Sharpshooter and the submarines P614 and P615. HMS Wheatland and...
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George A. Marsh (category Maritime incidents in 1917)
Belleville, Ontario man as a coal carrier. The Marsh met her demise on August 8, 1917, when she sank during a storm, with a loss of twelve of the fourteen crew...
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