Appendix 8

Ships built by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co. and sunk or attacked in the First World War:

Sunk

NAME	DATE SUNK	PLACE & YEAR OF MAKE	NOTES
AJ Hocken (Burr)		Grangemouth 1901	Torpedo; off Scarborough
Invergyle	13 March 1915	Grangemouth 1906	Torpedo; off Creswell, all crew saved
Nigel	12 Nov 1915	Grangemouth 1903	Mine; off Boulogne
Strathmore	2 June 1915	Greenock 1912	U-boat; of Flannan Islands by U35.
Strathcarron	8 June 1915	Greenock 1912	Torpedo; by U35 nr Lundy Island serving as an Admiralty collier
Restormel	19 Aug 1915	Greenock 1901	U-boat; torpedo 28 miles from Bishop Rock
H C Henry	28 Sep 1915	Greenock 1909	U-boat; in Mediterranean
Traquair	12 Jan 1916	Grangemouth 1915	Mine; nr Dover
Saint Cecilia	26 March 1916	Greenock 1913	Mine laid by UC-6
Strathtay	6 Sep 1916	Greenock 1905	U-boat; torpedo, Finistere
Strathdene	8 Oct 1916	Greenock 1909	U-boat; torpedo nr Nantucket LV
Saxonian	7 Feb 1917	Greenock 1914	U-boat; from Port Arthur to Dartmouth
Voltaire	11 Feb 1917	Grangemouth 1890	U-boat; bombs planted, South Bishop
Falcon	24 Feb 1917	Greenock 1901	U-boat; gunfire, 190 miles NNW Fastnet
Neepawah	22 April 1917	Greenock 1903	U-boat  bombs; nr Bishop Rock; requisitioned
San Fulgencio	4 May 1917	Grangemouth 1901	U-boat
Jupiter	21 May 1917	Greenock 1901	U-boat; torpedo off Beachy Head.  19 died
Cuyahoga	5 July 1917	Greenock 1914	Torpedo; 130 miles from Tory Island
Ypres	31 July 1917	Grangemouth 1897	U-39; gunfire off Cape Trafalgar
Baron Blantyre (Castle Eden)	3 Oct 1917	Greenock 1908	U-boat; torpedo, Cape Finistere
Peveril	6 Nov 1917	Grangemouth 1904	U.63; off Gibraltar
Humber	25 Jan 1918	Grangemouth 1897	U-boat; 2 miles of Sunderland, 7 died
Baron Ailsa	9 May 1918	Grangemouth 1912	Torpedo; Admiralty hire; off Pembrokeshire, 10 died
Impoco	30 May 1918	Grangemouth 1913	U-101
Muriel	17 Sep 1918	Grangemouth 1898	U-boat; of Peterhead to Scapa Flow with coal
Gentian	16 July 1919	Greenock 1916	Mine; with the Baltic Fleet

Attacked

NAME	PLACE & YEAR OF MAKE	NOTES
Luchana	Greenock 1904	On 27th January 1915 she picked up 16 survivors of the SS Artist, which had been torpedoed by a U-boat in appalling weather.  At the time there was an outcry and the incident was listed as a war atrocity.
Vennachar	Greenock 1915	On 6th April 1916, on route from Glasgow to Key West, damaged by a submarine and limped back into Glasgow on the 8th.
Jupiter	Greenock 1901	On 7 Oct 1916 a U-boat stopped the Jupiter and planted bombs aboard to sink her.  However, she remained afloat at 40 miles NE by E from Longstone and was towed back to safety.
Norton	Grangemouth 1907	A U-boat chased the Norton but failed to catch her on 5th May 1917 off the south of Ireland.  On 13th April the following year a torpedo from a U-boat narrowly missed her whilst she was off Ailsa Craig.
Broompark (Effra)	Greenock 1910	Torpedo form a U-boat missed her on 25th July 1917 in the North Sea.
Oneida	Grangemouth 1908	A torpedo from a U-boat missed the Oneida on 5th December 1917 in the English Channel.
Holmpark	Grangemouth  1913	On 3rd February 1918, on passage in the North Sea, a torpedo from a submarine missed her.  The same happened on the 18th September 1918 in the Bristol Channel.  A lucky ship!
Pomaron	Grangemouth  1907	Torpedo from a U-boat missed on 9th February 1918 in the Irish Channel.
Magdeburg	Grangemouth 1910	U-boat torpedo missed on 2 May 1918 in the North Sea.
Branden-burg	Grangemouth 1910	U-boat torpedo missed on 24th August 1918 in the North Sea.