German submarine SM UC 53 sunk Italian steamship Izabran according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 18 August 1917

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An item reported that the German submarine SM UC 53 commanding officer Kapitänleutnant Albrech had torpedoed and sunk on 10 August the armed Italian steamship Izabran of 3,892 tons loaded with 6,000 ton wheat underway from Australia towards Naples, Italy, on behalf of the Italian government, off Cap Palinuro.(1)

Note

1. Ordered on 12 January 1916, launched by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany with yard number 269 on 27 February 1917, commissioned on 5 April 1917 and scuttled at Pola [nowadays Pula, Croatia] on 28 October 1918.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622