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S/S Euphrates

The First World War · All conflicts

Type

Steamer

Tonnage

4,250 GRT

Owner

Commission for Relief in Belgium

Flag

Belgian

Date

22 January 1917

Fate

on passage from Barry to New York in ballast, torpedoed by U 57 about two hundred miles south-west of the Fastnet; most of the crew drowned. The Relief Commission did not hear of it until 3 February, and put it to the German government that it had happened before the expiry of the very period they had themselves declared safe

Attacker

U-57 (Carl-Siegfried Ritter von Georg)