Name Marguerite Yard number 161 Type Cargo ship Length 79 m | Owner Fernand Bouet, Caen Fate Sunk, 28 June 1917 Launched 1912 | |
Builder Osbourne, Graham & Co. Ltd., North Hylton | ||
Marguerite was a 1544-ton French ship built by Osbourne, Graham & Co. Ltd. of North Hylton in Sunderland in 1912.
On 28 June 1917 she was sailing from Rouen to Swansea when she was torpedoed and sunk in Lyme Bay by the German submarine UB-40 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Hans Howaldt. The wreck lies at 50°36′06″N 02°58′39″W.
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