Remains of British steamship Brussels around 1918

Original postcard. Scuttled at the end of the mole at Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Her captain was Charles Fryatt who was taken prisoner and executed at Brugge on 27 July 1916 after trying to ram the German submarine SMS U-33. His ship was captured by the German torpedo boats SMS G101 and G102. As the Brugge she was commissioned in the German navy and used as depot ship at Zeebrugge. During the German evacuation scuttled on 28 October 1918 at the end of the mole at Zeebrugge, Belgium. Salvaged and finally broken up in May 1929. She was launched by Gourlay Brothers, Dundee, Scotland with yard number 202 on 26 March 1902 as the Brussels for the Great Eastern Railway.