An item dated Berlin, Germany 5th reported that recently the German submarine (1) commanded by Loss (2) five steamships and French fishery vessels sunk with a total tonnage as more as 28.000 ton. One of the destroyed ship was the British 9.500 tons auxiliary cruiser Moldavia.(3)
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1. The UB-57, ordered on 20 May 1916, launched at the shipyard of AG Weser, Bremen, Germany with yard number 269 on 21 June 1917, commissioned on 30 July 1917 and sunk when shit a mine on 14 August 1918 on the position 51.56 north and 02.02 east.
2. Oberleutnant zur See Johannes Lohs (24 June 1889-14 August 1918).
3. Bought by the British Admiralty in 1915 and rebuilt into an armed auxiliary cruiser which was torpedoed and sunk on 23 May 1918 in the British Channel off Beachy Head by the German submarine UB-57. At that moment was the Moldavia used as a troop transports with American soldiers embarked. Launched as passenger ship at the shipyard of Caird&Company, Greenock, Scotland with yard number 301 for account of the Peninsular and Orien Steam navigation Company (P&O) in 28 March 1903.
