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WW1 - Daleby to Dawdon
Those That Lost Their Lives
The Steam Cargo Ship
Daleby was a 3,628 GRT steam cargo ship completed in 1900 by Ropner & Son for R.Ropner & Co. She was sunk on 29 April 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine U-70 approximately 180 nautical miles North-West of Fastnet. She was en route from Huelva to Garston with a cargo of copper and silver ore
Lost at Sea
This table has been updated to include basic information about those that lost their lives. The data is by courtesy of the CWGC and where appropriate information is included about those who served on the ships but who had a normal burial as well as those lost at sea and recorded on the Tower Hill Memorial.
UK and Commonwealth Merchant Navy Seamen
Recorded as Lost on Daleby
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