German submarine SM UC 27 sunk the British steamship Type Morea according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 14 August 1917

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An item reported that the German submarine SM UC 27 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Gerhard Schulz had torpedoed (2 torpedo’s) and sunk on 26 July an armed British steamship Type Morea, loaded, of 10,890 tons in the Skerki passage.

Note

1. Type UC II minelaying submarine. Ordered on 29 August 1915, launched by AG Vulkan, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 66 on 28 June 916, commissioned on 25 July 1916, surrendered to France on 3 February 1919 and scrapped at Landerneau in July 1921.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM-40-622