Neath
Name | Neath |
Type | Auxiliary motor
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GRT | 5,548 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1906
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Builder | Rickmers A.G., Bremerhaven
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Operator | Admiralty requisition, London
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History | Five-masted bark fitted with an auxiliary motor that was built as the R. C. Rickmers Seized at Cardiff in August 1914 and renamed.
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U-boat attacks on Auxiliary motor Neath
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 27 Mar 1917 | U 66 (Thorwald von Bothmer) | Sunk | 28 miles SxE of Fastnet
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| Mauritius - Havre
| sugar
| 0
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| Master taken prisoner.
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