Quintero
Photo courtesy of Danish Maritime Museum, Elsinore
Name | Quintero |
Type | Sailing vessel
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GRT | 1,611 tons |
Country | Danish |
Built | 1890
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Builder | Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Alloa
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Operator | Rederiselsk. Limfjorden (Rechnitzer, Thomsen & Co.), Aalborg
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History | Steel-hulled bark. Built as Emin Pascha.
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U-boat attacks on Sailing vessel Quintero
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 16 Mar 1918 | UB 34 (Hellmuth von Ruckteschell) | Sunk | Stopped and scuttled off the Skaw
| 57° 54'N, 9° 33'E
| Frederikshavn - New York
| in ballast
| 0
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| Ship sunk as her papers indicated a change of flags during the war; the ship had previously been Allied-owned.
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Position of attack on Quintero
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