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Sommerstad

Shipwreck Sommerstad

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, England
Built:: 1906, England
Specs:: ( 340 x 47 ft ) 3875 gross tons, 31 crew
Sunk:: Monday August 12, 1918
torpedoed by U-117 - no casualties
Depth:: 180 ft

SS Sommerstad, built by R. Stephenson & Co Ltd, Newcastle in 1906 and owned at the time of her loss by Klaveness Dampskibsselsk. A/S (A. F. Klaveness & Co.), Sandefjord, was a Norwegian steamer of 3875 tons.

On August 12th, 1918, Sommerstad, on a voyage from Bergen to New York in ballast, was sunk by the German submarine U-117 (Otto Dröscher), 30 miles southeast of the Fire Island lightship, New York.

U-117 — U-117, sunk as a target 1921

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