Greta (SS)

Name: Greta (SS)
Address: IE

Steel Steamship in Ireland, dating from 1917

317-ton steel steamship owned by Joseph Monks & Co., Liverpool. Built in 1903 by Scott & Sons, Bowling. Measured L.39m x 7m x 3m Powered by 2-cylinder compression 52 Hp single boiler screw engine. En route from Cork to Neath Abbey with a crew of 7 under Captain H.B. Johnson. Captured and sunk by gunfire by the German U-boat UC-48 SE of Mine Head. The steamer was in ballast and on route from Cork to Neath Abbey at the time of its loss. No lives were lost. The wreck lies in 55m of water.

Type:: Steel Steamship
Period:: 1917
Coordinates:: 51.86°N, 7.38°W

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