German submarine SM UC 37 sunk unknown armed steamship according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 18 August 1917

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An item reported that An item reported that the German submarine SM UC 37 commanding officer Oberleutnant zur See List had torpedoed and sunk on 12 August an unknown armed steamship of about 5,000 tons part of a strong protected convoy near Marittimo.(1)

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1. Type UC II minelaying submarine. Ordered on 20 November 1915, launched by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 178 on 5 June 1916, commissioned on 17 October 1916, surrendered at Sevastopol, Crimea on 25 November 1918 and scrapped at Bizerta, French Tunisia.

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Bundesarchiv RM-40-622