King Idwal
Left Archangel
For Dunkirk
Lost 22 November 1917
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Fate
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Able Seaman
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W Anderson
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Lost
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Torpedoed and Sunk off The Scottish Coast - 1917
King Idwal was a 3,631 GRT steam cargo ship completed in 1906 by J. Readhead & Sons for King Line Ltd. and managed by Philipps, Philipps & Co. Ltd.
She was sunk on 22 November 1917 by torpedo fired by German submarine U-75 approximately 35 nautical miles East of Girdle Ness or 29 nautical miles South-East by East of Buchan Ness.
She was en route from Archangel to Dunkirk with a cargo of wood.