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Thursday 14 July 2016

British destroyer HMS Recruit sunk by German submarine UB-6 according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag dated 3 May 1915

An item referred to an announcement of the British Admiralty that on Saturday a German submarine destroyed the British destroyer Recruit. Of her crew were 4 officers and 21 sailors rescued.(1)

Note
1. Laid down by J&G Thomson, Clydebank, Scotland on 18 October 1895, launched on 22 August 1896, commissioned in October 1890 and sunk by the German submarine UB-6 in the southern part of the North Sea.