Aud (SS)

Ship in Ireland, dating from 1916

Originally an English merchant vessel, the 1228-ton steamship (L.250 x B.35 x D.16ft) was originally owned by the Wilson Line, Hull. Captured by the Germans in 1914, her name was changed from Castro to Libau and renamed again to Aud when disguised as a Norwegian freighter which she resembled and despatched to Ireland in 1916 to deliver a shipment of arms for the Easter Rising. She sailed from Wilhelmshaven, under Captain Karl Spindler, arriving off the Kerry coast on April 20th but, due to conf

Type:

Ship

Period:

1916

Coordinates:

51.71°N, 8.24°W

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