Raymond
Name | Raymond |
Type | Sailing vessel
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GRT | 109 tons |
Country | French |
Built | 1903
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Builder | Sauvage, Dunkerque
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Operator | De Keirel & Hardebolle, Dunkerque
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History |
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U-boat attacks on Sailing vessel Raymond
| Date | U-boat | Loss type | Position | Location | Route | Cargo | Casualties |
1 | 28 Apr 1918 | U 91 (Alfred von Glasenapp) | Sunk | Sunk by gunnery 4 miles east of Tuskar Rock.
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| Cardiff - Reykjavik
| coal
| 7
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| Attribution 2016 by Michael Lowrey, based in part upon information posted on the French-language Pages 1914-1918 Forum. Raymond was defensively armed, and U 91 took her to be a Q-ship. The U-boat’s second shell hit apparently killed much of the sailing vessel’s crew as they were taking to the lifeboat. U 91 continued shelling the schooner until she was afire and sinking by the bow. There were no survivors; Raymond was posted as missing. Though the incident is described in the German official history, Spindler was unable to determine the identity of the vessel U 91 had sunk.
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