Everything about Ss Glitra totally explained
SS Glitra was a steam ship that was the first
British merchant vessel to be sunk in the
First World War.
History
SS
Saxon Prince was the first ship built for Prince Steam Shipping Ltd., otherwise known as "Prince Line". She was launched in 1882, and in 1884 entered service with Prince Line. She served for eleven years with Prince Line and was then sold to
Christian Salvesen in
1895.
Saxon Prince was renamed
Glitra and served with Christian Salvesen for nineteen years. She was fated to be the first British merchant vessel sunk by
Germany in the First World War.
Capture and sinking
On
20 October 1914,
Glitra was outbound from
Grangemouth with a destination of
Stavanger,
Norway laden with coal, iron plate and oil when she was stopped and searched by the German
U-boat U-17, under the command of
Kapitänleutnant Johannes Feldkirchener. The stop and search was done in accordance with the "
prize rules" of war. The crew were ordered into the lifeboats, and once all were safely aboard the captors opened the sea valves and
scuttled Glitra.
Thus
Glitra became the first British merchant vessel to be lost to a German submarine
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