Boniface (SS)

Liner in Ireland, dating from 1917

UKHO Wreck No.005900062. 3799-ton steel requisitioned liner of Liverpool. Owned by Booth Steamship Co. Ltd. Built in 1904 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd., Glasgow. Measured L.355 x B.49 x D.24ft Classed 100 A1 by Lloyd's. En route from New York to Glasgow with a general cargo weighing 5,049 tons, which included steel and copper under captain D.W. Williams. Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-53 without warning. One life was lost. Lies in a general depth of 52 metres. Risdon Beazley’s Droxford l

Type:

Liner

Period:

1917

Coordinates:

55.16°N, 8.42°W

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