S/S Trevier

The First World War · All conflicts

Type: Steamer
Owner: Commission for Relief in Belgium (charter)
Flag: Belgian
Date: 4 April 1917
Fate: carrying 4,396 tons of wheat, torpedoed in broad daylight without warning ten miles off the Dutch coast and inside the so-called safe lane; six of the crew were seriously wounded by shellfire after they had taken to the boats
Attacker: UB-23 (Hans Ewald Niemer)