British auxiliary minesweeper HMS Newmarket sunk by German submarine SM UB-38 according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 25 August 1917

An item reported that after interrogating a naval engineer of the sunk patrol vessel Newmarket more technical details became available. This type guard vessel was armed with 3-12 pound guns (2 aft, 1 fore), each with 250 shots. Further more depth bombs all to exploded on a depth of 45 yards. Crew numbered 73 men. She had been part of the 4. Detached Squadron stationed at Port Jero (Mytilini). Such squadron consisted of 1 cruiser, 2 patrol steamships similar to the Newmarket, 2 destroyers and 4 motor boats. The squadrons were active in the Souda Bay, of Imbros and at Stavros. The motor boats were the real submarine chasers, made of wood,2 screws, 2-500hp diesel engines and speed of 18 nautical miles.Armed with 1-33 pound gun on the bow and one large depth charge,

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1. Built by Earle’s Shipbuilding&Engineering Co., Hull, England for the Great Eastern Railway Company, purchased by the Royal Navy, commissioned on 8 October 1914 as an auxiliary minesweeper and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine SM UB-38 south of Ikaria Island, Aegean Sea on 17 July 1917.

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Bundesarchiv RM-40-622