Name SS Redbreast Launched 18 April 1908 Length 81 m | Yard number 285 Name HMS Redbreast Beam 10 m | |
Operator G. & J. Burns Ltd, Glasgow Builder A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse | ||
HMS Redbreast was a passenger/cargo ship requisitioned by the British Government during World War I, and used as a messager ship and antisubmarine Q-ship. She was torpedoed and sunk by the Imperial German Navy submarine UC-38 in the Aegean Sea on 15 July 1917 while on passage from Skyros to the Doro Channel. Forty-two of her crew were killed.
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