S/S Keltier

The First World War · All conflicts

Type: Steamer
Tonnage: 2,360 GRT
Built: 1913
Owner: Lloyd Royal Belge S.A. (Antwerpsche Zeevaart Mij. 1913-1918)
Flag: Belgian
Home port: Antwerp
Date: 7 December 1916
Fate: on passage from Newcastle in New Brunswick to Calais with a cargo of timber, torpedoed by UB-29 forty-five miles west of the Scilly Islands; she stayed afloat, was towed into Falmouth and was back at sea five days later
Attacker: UB-29 (Erich Platsch)