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Thursday 5 March 2015

Dutch tug Oostzee investigating wreck of the Koningin Regentes according to the Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder courant dated 21 June 1918

An item reported the departure yesterday afternoon of the Dutch tug Zeeland to the wreck of the Koningin Regentes for more investigations.(1)

Note
1. Presumably the Koningin Regentes of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland of 1895 torpedoed on 6 June 1918 21 miles east of the Leman lightship by the German submarine UB 107. She was underway from Boston, USA towards Rotterdam, Netherlands and used as a hospital ship.