Caledonia
Name | Caledonia |
Type | Passenger steamer
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GRT | 9,223 tons |
Country | British |
Built | 1904
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Builder | D. & W. Henderson & Co., Ltd., Glasgow
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Operator | Anchor Line (Henderson Bros.), Ltd., Glasgow
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History |
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U-boat attacks on Passenger steamer Caledonia
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 4 Dec 1916 | U 65 (Hermann von Fischel) | Sunk | Torpedoed 125 miles ExS of Malta
| 35° 40'N, 17° 05'E
| Salonica - Marseille
| mails
| 1
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| Master and two passengers — Major General H S L Ravenshaw and his adjunct — taken prisoner. Ravenshaw, the commander of the 27th Division in Salonika, was en route to a meeting when the Caledonia was sunk.
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Position of attack on Caledonia
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