Leinster (RMS)

Screw Steamer in Ireland, dating from 1918

2,646-ton, 22-year-old steel twin screw steamer built in Birkenhead, Liverpool, by Lairds. Owned by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, captain was William Birch. Measured L. 360ft x B. 42ft x D. 27ft. En route from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead with a general cargo including 250 sacks of mail and 680 passengers. Over 400 of the passengers were soldiers. Torpedoed by German submarine UB-123, sank bow-first in fifteen minutes. The destroyer, HMS Lively, Destroyer Mallard and the Motor Launch 154

Type:

Screw Steamer

Period:

1918

Coordinates:

53.31°N, 5.79°W

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