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BRITISH WORLD WAR I MERCHANT SHIP LOSSES - G

NAME
OWNER
TONS
DATE
POSITION / VOYAGE
DETAILS
G. A. SAVAGE Zillah Shipping Co, Troon
357
11.3.1917
Bristol Channel off Pendeen Point / Workington - Swansea Torpedoed and sunk by submarine UC.47
G. C. GRADWELL (S.V.) J. E. Prettyman, St. Austell, Cornwall
156
2.8.1916
20 miles NW from Cape Antifer / voyage unknown Captured and shelled by submarineUB.18 
GADSBY Sir R. Ropner & Co, West Hartlepool
3,497
1.7.1915
33 miles SSW from Wolf Rock / Sydney, N.S.- London Captured by submarine U.39 and torpedoed
GAFSA C. T. Bowring, London
3,922
16.6.1916
80 miles SW x S from Genoa / Swansea - Genoa Captured by submarine U.35 and shelled
GAFSA C. T. Bowring, London
3,974
28.3.1917
10 miles SE ½ S from Kinsale Head / Port Arthur, Texas - Queenstown for orders Torpedoed by submarine U.57
GALEKA (Hospital ship) Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co, London
6,772
28.10.1916
5 miles NW from Cape la Hague / U.K. - Le Havre Mined
GALGATE (S.V.) The Galgate Co (John Joyce & Co), Liverpool.
2,356
6.5.1916
170 miles W x N from Ushant / Portland. Oregon - Falmouth Captured by submarine U.20 and shelled
GALGORM CASTLE (S.V.) John Stewart & Co, London.
1,596
27.2.1917
90 miles W from Fastnet / Buenos Aires - Queenstown Captured by submarine U.49 and shelled
GALICIA Pacific Steam Nav. Co, Liverpool
5,922
12.5.1917
3 miles E from Teignmouth / Liverpool & London - Valparaiso Mined
GALICIA John Hall & Co, London
1,400
10.6.1917
140 miles SW x S ½ S from Fastnet / Malaga - London Torpedoed by submarine U.70
GALLIER Brys & Glysen, London
4,592
2.1.1918
7 miles ENE from Wolf Rock / Le Havre - Barry Torpedoed by submarine U.95
GALWAY CASTLE Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co, London
7,988
12.9.1918
160 miles SW ½ S from Fastnet / Plymouth - Port Natal Torpedoed by submarine U.82
GANGES E. Hain & Son, St. Ives
4,177
30.7.1917
8 miles SW from Cape Spartel / Barry - Spezia Torpedoed by submarine U.39
GANNET General Steam Nav. Co, London
1,127
7.7.1916
5 miles ENE from Shipwash lightship / Rotterdam - London Mined
GARDEPEE C. A. Stewart & Co, London
1,633
10.10.1916
70 miles NNE from North Cape / Trondheim & Christiansand - Archangel Captured by submarine U.43 and sunk with bombs
GARFIELD Hunting & Son, Newcastle
3,838
15.1.1917
50 miles NE x N ½ N from Alexandria / Malta - Port Said Torpedoed by submarine U.39
GARMOYLE Clyde Shipping Co, Glasgow
1,229
10.7.1917
14 miles SE from Mine Head / Cork - Clyde Torpedoed by submarine U.57
GARRON HEAD G. Heyn & Sons, Belfast
1,933
16.11.1917
40 miles NE x E ½ E from Bayonne / Bilbao - Barrow & Maryport Mined
GARTHCLYDE Sir W. Garthwaite, Glasgow
2,124
15.10.1917
12 miles W ¼ S from the Lizard / Clyde - Bordeaux Torpedoed by submarine UC.79
GARTHWAITE Sir W. Garthwaite, Glasgow
5,690
13.12.1917
4 miles E from Whitby / Tyne - New York Torpedoed by submarine UB.22
GARTLAND Whimster & Co, Glasgow
2,613
3.1.1918
5 miles ESE from Owers lightship / Tyne - Gibraltar Torpedoed by submarine UB.30
GARTNESS Leopold Walford Ltd, London
2,422
19.8.1917
180 miles SE x E ¾ E from Malta / Ergasteria, Greece - Middlesbrough Torpedoed by submarine U.40
GASCONIA Leopold Walford Ltd, London
3,801
16.11.1917
12 miles NE ½ E from Cape Shershel / Barry - Malta Torpedoed by submarine U.63
GASCONY D. MacIver & Sons, Liverpool
3,133
6.1.1918
10 miles SSE from Owers lighship / Southampton - Calais Torpedoed by submarine UC.75
GAUNTLET (S.V.) John C. Renouf & Co, St. Helier, Jersey
58
18.6.1917
30 miles NW from Les Hanois Captured by submarine UC.65 and sunk with bombs
GAUPEN The Shipping Controller, managed by Freear & Dix, Sunderland
622
12.3.1918
5 miles SE x E ¼ E from N. Foreland / Tyne - Le Havre Mined
GAZELLE (S.V.) W. E. Colebrooke, Rye.
119
2.3.1917
20 miles SSW from Dungeness / London - Le Havre Captured by submarine U.53 and sunk with bombs
GEFION The Shipping Controller, managed by Williams & Mordey, Cardiff
1,123
25.10.1917
10 miles NE from Berry Head / Penarth - Rouen Torpedoed by submarine UB.40
GEILAN BAHRI (S.V.)
19
8.4.1917
54 miles from Alexandria Captured by submarine UC.34 and sunk with bombs
GEM Wm. Robertson, Glasgow.
461
25.12.1914
3½ miles SE x E ¼ E from Scarborough / Mostyn - Tyne Mined
GEMINI Moller & Co, Shanghai
2,128
20.7.1918
7 miles NW ½ N from Godrevy light / Belfast - St. Helens Roads Torpedoed by submarine U.60
GEMMA Everett & Newbigin, Newcastle
1,385
19.10.1917
5 miles N x W from Flamborough Head / Blyth - London Torpedoed by submarine UB.21
GENA T. Turnbull & Son, Whitby
2,784
1.5.1917
Off Southwold / Tyne - ? Sunk with torpedo from seaplane
GENERAL LAURIE (S.V.) George M. Barr, St. John's, NF.
238
9.6.1917
75 miles SW from Marseilles / Bahia - Marseilles Captured by submarine U.72 and set on fire.
GEO Becker & Co, London
3,048
29.1.1918
6 miles N x W from Cape Peloro, Sicily / Naples - Tunis Torpedoed by submarine UC.53
GEORGE AND MARY (S.V.) William Hughes, Portavogie, Co. Down
100
4.6.1915
15 miles SW from Eagle Island / Tralee - Glasgow Captured by submarine U.35 and shelled
GEORGE PYMAN G. Pyman & Co, West Hartlepool
3,859
17.5.1917
130 miles NW from Tearaght Island / Cuba - Queenstown Torpedoed by submarine U.49
GEORGIAN F. Leyland & Co, Liverpool
5,088
8.3.1917
52 miles N from Cape Sidero / voyage unknown Torpedoed by submarine UB.47
GEORGIC White Star Line, London
10,077
10.12.1916
590 miles ESE from Cape Race / Philadelphia - Brest Captured by cruiser MÖWE and torpedoed
GEORGIOS ANTIPPA The Shipping Controller, managed by Cairns, Noble & Co, Newcastle
1,960
28.11.1917
25 miles S x E from Flamborough Head / Sunderland - Rouen Torpedoed by unknown submarine
GHAZEE Gellatly, Hankey & Co, London
5,084
4.2.1917
2 miles SSW from Galley Head / Cardiff - Port Sudan Torpedoed by submarine U.60
GIBEL-HAMAM M. H. Bland & Co, Gibraltar
647
14.9.1918
Off Abbotsbury, Dorset / Swansea - France Torpedoed by submarine UB.103
GIBEL-YEDID M. H. Bland & Co, Gibraltar
949
13.7.1917
150 miles W ¾ N from Ushant / Newport, Mon. - Gibraltar Captured by submarine and sunk U.48 with bombs
GIBRALTAR Glen & Co, Glasgow
3,803
12.9.1917
100 miles SE ½ S from Cape de Creus / Karachi - Marseilles Torpedoed by submarine UC.27
GIPPESWIC (S.V.) Wynnfield Shipping Co (James W. Eason), Grimsby
116
31.3.1917
15 miles NE from Cape Barfleur / Caen - Poole Captured by submarine UB.32 and sunk with bombs
GIRALDA South Metropolitan Gas Co, London
1,100
28.8.1918
5 miles NNW from Whitby / London - Tyne Torpedoed by submarine UB.77and beached, total loss.
GIRDLENESS Letricheux & David Ltd, Swansea
3,018
2.5.1918
18 miles NE x E ½ E from Trevose Head / Swansea - ? Torpedoed by submarine U.60
GISELLA Alexander & Mair, Glasgow
2,502
18.11.1917
2 miles SW x S from Skokham Island, Pembroke / Cardiff - ? Torpedoed by submarine UC.77
GLADIATOR T & J. Harrison, Liverpool
3,359
19.8.1915
68 miles N x W from Bishop Rock / Liverpool & Cardiff - Pernambuco Captured by submarine U.27 and shelled
GLADYS Wyndham Bros, Cardiff
179
27.11.1917
3 miles SW from Cape Gris Nez / Middlesbrough - Dieppe Mined
GLADYS ROYLE J. Westoll, Sunderland
3,268
9.1.1917
120 miles S ¼ W from Santa Maria, Azores / Cardiff - Buenos Aires Captured by aux. cruiser SEEADLER and sunk with bombs
GLANTON Steel, Young & Co, London
3,021
18.10.1914
195 miles SW from St. Paul Rocks / Barry - Montevideo Captured by cruiser KARLSRUHE and sunk with bombs
GLAUCUS Ocean S.S. Co, Liverpool
5,295
3.6.1918
20 miles W from Cape Granitola, Sicily / Liverpool - Shanghai Torpedoed by submarine UB.68
GLEN TANAR J. Cook & Son, Aberdeen
817
3.5.1917
1 mile NE from Girdleness, Aberdeen / Seaham Harbour - Aberdeen Mined
GLENALMOND Galbraith, Pembroke & Co, London
2,888
9.4.1916
27 miles N from Ushant / Bilbao - Clyde Captured by submarine U.66 and torpedoed
GLENARM HEAD G. Heyn & Sons, Belfast
3,908
4.1.1918
5 miles SW x S from Brighton lightship / Southampton - Boulogne Torpedoed by submarine UB.30
GLENART CASTLE (Hospital ship) Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co, London
6,824
26.2.1918
10 miles W from Lundy Island / Newport, Mon. - Brest Torpedoed by submarine UC.56
GLENARTNEY J. Gardiner & Co, Glasgow
5,201
18.3.1915
4 miles S from Royal Sovereign lightship / Bangkok - London & Liverpool Torpedoed by submarine U.34
GLENARTNEY McGregor, Gow & Co, London
7,263
5.2.1918
30 miles NE from Cape Bon / Singapore - London Torpedoed by submarine UC.54
GLENBY Sir R. Ropner & Co, West Hartlepool
2,196
17.8.1915
30 miles N from the Smalls / Cardiff - Archangel Captured by submarine U.38 and shelled
GLENCARRON Furness, Withy & Co, London
5,117
19.2.1918
47 miles S x E ½ E from the Lizard / Philadelphia - London Torpedoed by submarine U.82
GLENCLIFFE Fisher, Alimonda & Co, London
3,673
12.4.1917
2¼ miles SE from Tabarca Island, Spain / Clyde - Genoa Torpedoed by submarine U.52
GLENCLUNY J. Gardiner & Co, Glasgow
4,812
27.4.1917
4 miles NW from Cape Sigli / Bombay - Hull Torpedoed by submarine UC.67
GLENCOE Leopold Walford Ltd, London
2,560
14.12.1916
14 miles NNW from Ile d'Yeu, Biscay / Clyde - Bordeaux Captured by submarine UC.18 and torpedoed
GLENFORD Mann, MacNeal & Co, Glasgow
494
20.3.1918
24 miles E ½ S from Rockabill / Dundalk - Dinmor Captured by submarine U.101 and shelled
GLENFOYLE (Special Service Ship) Great Lakes Transportation Co, Midland, Ontario
1,680
18.9.1917
Off SW Ireland / Government service Torpedoed by submarine U.43
GLENFRUIN Easton, Grieg & Co, Glasgow
3,097
29.1.1918
NW from Holyhead / Seriphos - Ardrossan Torpedoed by submarine (probably) UC.31
GLENGYLE McGregor, Gow & Co, London
9,395
1.1.1916
240 miles E x S from Malta / Bombay- Genoa Torpedoed by submarine U.34
GLENHOLM (S.V.) Chart Shipping Co. Ltd (W. Price & Co), Liverpool
1,968
21.5.1915
16 miles WSW from Fastnet / Iquique - Falmouth Captured by submarine U.27 and torpedoed
GLENLEE J. Gardiner & Co, Glasgow
4,140
29.5.1915
67 miles SSW from Wolf Rock / Barry - Aden Captured by submarine U.44 and torpedoed
GLENLEE Furness, Withy & Co, London
4,915
9..8.1918
4 miles E x N from Owers lightship / Clyde - Dunkirk Torpedoed by submarine UB.57
GLENLOGAN McGregor, Gow & Co, London
5,838
31.10.1916
10 miles SE from Stromboli / Yokohama - London & Hull Torpedoed by submarine U.21
GLENMOOR W. Runciman & Co, Newcastle
3,075
6.11.1915
5 miles NE from Cap de Fer, Tunisia / Bombay - Tees Captured by submarine U.38 and torpedoed
GLENOGLE McGregor, Gow & Co, London
7,682
27.3.1917
207 miles SW from Fastnet / Tees & London - Yokohama Torpedoed by submarine U.24
GLENRAVEL Antrim Iron Ore Co, Belfast
1,092
8.8.1915
25 miles N from Kinnaird Head / Belfast - Leith Captured by submarine U.17 and sunk with bombs
GLENSTRAE McGregor, Gow & Co, London
4,718
28.7.1917
66 miles SW x S ¼ S from Bishop Rock / Dakar - Dunkirk & London Torpedoed by submarine UC.62
GLITRA Christian Salvesen & Co, Leith
866
20.10.1914
14 miles WSW from Skudesnaes, Norway / Grangemouth - Stavanger Captured by submarine U.17 and scuttled
GLOCLIFFE Humphries Ltd, Cardiff
2,211
19.8.1917
9 miles ENE from Berry Head / Cardiff - Southampton Torpedoed by submarine UB.40
GLOW Gas, Light & Coke Co, London
1,141
22.7.1917
4 miles SE x E from Robin Hood Bay / Tyne - London Torpedoed by submarine UB.21
GLYNN (S.V.)
78
5.9.1917
32 miles NW from Les Hanois / Granville - Swansea Captured by submarine UC.42 and shelled
GLYNYMEL Harris Bros & Co, Swansea
1,394
12.3.1917
23 miles S x W from St. Catherine's Point / Le Havre - Swansea Captured by submarine UC.66 and torpedoed
GOATHLAND Headlam & Rowland, Whitby
3,044
4.7.1917
10 miles S from Belle Isle / St. Nazaire - Gulf of Mexico Torpedoed by submarine U.84
GOLCONDA British India S.N. Co, London
5,874
3.6.1916
5 miles SE x E from Aldeburgh / Tees & London - Calcutta Torpedoed by submarine UC.3
GOLD COAST Elder, Dempster & Co. Liverpool
4,255
19.4.1917
14 miles S from Mine Head / Dakar - Liverpool Torpedoed by submarine UC.47
GOLDMOUTH Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London
7,446
31.3.1916
60 miles WNW from Ushant / Tarakan - Falmouth Captured by submarine U.44 and torpedoed
GOOD HOPE Houlder, Middleton & Co, London
3,618
19.10.1917
125 miles E x S from Malta / Siphnos Island - Middlesbrough Torpedoed by Austro-Hungarian submarine U.14
GOOD HOPE (S.V.)
77
27.4.1917
15 miles NNW from Cape Barfleur / Isigny, France - Cardiff Captured by submarine UC.72 and shelled
GOODWOOD J. Constantine, Middlesbrough
3,086
21.8.1917
28 miles NW x W from Cape Bon / Naples - Tunis Torpedoed by submarine UC.67
GORSEMORE Furness, Withy & Co, London
3,079
22.9.1918
44 miles SE ½ E from Cape Colonne / Barry - Taranto Torpedoed by submarine UC.53
GOVERNOR The Shipping Controller, managed by T & J. Harrison, Liverpool
5,524
14.3.1917
930 miles W ¼ S from Fastnet / voyage unknown Captured by cruiser MÖWE and torpedoed
GOWER COAST Mann, MacNeal & Co, Glasgow
804
5.4.1917
English Channel off Treport / Tyne - Treport Mined
GOWRIE Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Co, Dundee
1,031
10.10.1917
14 miles NE from Cherbourg / Newhaven - Cherbourg Torpedoed by submarine U.53
GRACE (S.V.) Mrs Elizabeth L. Murdock, Saul, Gloucester
135
29.11.1916
40 miles SE x E from Start Point / Charlestown, Cornwall - Rouen Captured by submarine UB.39 and sunk with bombs
GRANGEMOOR W. Runciman & Co, Newcastle
3,198
20.7.1916
75 miles NW x W from Algiers / Genoa - Baltimore Captured by submarine U.39 and shelled
GRANGEWOOD Gratitude SS Co (E. W. Morgan & Co), London
3,422
25.7.1915
20 miles ENE from Flugga light, Shetland / Archangel - Le Havre Captured by submarine U.41 and torpedoed
GRANTLEYHALL West Hartlepool S.N. Co, West Hartlepool
4,008
23.12.1917
5 miles E from Orfordness / Villaricos - Middlesbrough Mined
GRAVINA MacAndrews & Co, London
1,242
7.2.1917
85 miles W from Fastnet / Seville - London Torpedoed by submarine U.81
GREATHAM Coombes, Marshall & Co, Middlesbrough
2,338
22.1.1918
3 miles SSE from Dartmouth / Grimsby - Blaye Torpedoed by submarine UB.31
GREAVESASH E. R. Newbigin Ltd, Newcastle
1,263
26.2.1918
10 miles NE from Cape Barfleur / Le Havre - Barry Roads Torpedoed by submarine UB.74
GREENBANK G. B. Harland & Co, West Hartlepool
3,881
3.6.1917
12 miles N from Cape Falcon, Algeria / Cardiff - Alexandria Torpedoed by submarine U.33
GREENHILL (Admiralty collier) W. J. Tillett SS Co, Cardiff
1,900
16.12.1917
Long Sand / Blyth - Holmsey Hole - Dunkirk Wrecked
GREENLAND Donald Currie & Co, London
1,763
14.2.1917
20 miles SW from Bardsey Island / Fleetwood - Cherbourg Captured by submarinen UC.65 and sunk with bombs
GREENWICH Watts, Watts & Co, London
2,938
5.12.1917
9 miles S from Planier Island / Saigon - Marseilles Torpedoed by submarine UC.67
GREGYNOG Lambton & Gretton Collieries Ltd (E. T. Nisbet), Newcastle
1,701
18.4.1918
16 miles SW from Hartland Point / Penarth - Portland Torpedoed by submarine UB.86
GRELDON J. C. Gould & Co, Cardiff
3,322
8.10.1917
7 miles ENE from N. Arklow lightship / Birkenhead - Italy Torpedoed by submarine U.96
GRELEEN J. C. Gould & Co, Cardiff
2,286
22.9.1917
7 miles E x N from Berry Head / Bilbao - Middlesbrough Torpedoed by submarine UB.40
GRELHAME J. C. Gould & Co, Cardiff
3,740
30.8.1917
4 miles SW from Start Point / Cuba - Le Havre Torpedoed by submarine U.62
GRELTORIA J. C. Gould & Co, Cardiff
5,143
27.9.1917
3 miles NW x N ½ N from Flamborough Head / Tyne - Naples Torpedoed by submarine UB.34
GRENADA (S.V.) Gwalia Shipping Co Ltd (Roberts, Owen & Co), Liverpool
2,268
22.11.1916
32 miles SW x S from Beachy Head / Le Havre - New York Captured by submarine UB.40 and shelled
GRENADIER Tyne-Tees S.S. Co, Newcastle
1,004
23.2.1917
6 miles ENE from Shipwash lightship / Rotterdam - Tyne Mined
GRESHAM V. T. Thompson & Co, Sunderland
3,774
26.4.1918
18 miles NW x N ½ N from Strumble Head / Clyde - Barry Roads Torpedoed by submarine U.91
GRETA J. Monks & Co Ltd, Liverpool
297
5.5.1917
11 miles SE from Mine Head / Cork - Neath Abbey Captured by submarine UC.48 and shelled
GRETASTON W. S. Miller & Co, Glasgow
3,395
4.1917
Mouth of Gironde, Biscay / Huelva - Garston Torpedoed and sunk by submarine UC.72
GREYPOINT W. A. Massey & Sons, Hull
894
18.3.1917
2 miles SE x E from Broadstairs Landing / Rouen - Tyne Sunk with torpedo by Torpedo Boat Destroyer S.20
GRIT (Motor Barge) F. T. Everard, Greenhithe
147
21.10.1916
25 miles S from Beachy Head / ? - Le Havre Captured by submarine UB.29 and shelled
GRIVE (Armed Boarding Ship) General Steam Nav. Co, London
2,037
8.12.1917
Off Lerwick / Government service Torpedoed by submarine UC.40
GRODNO Wilson Line, Hull
1,955
12.8.1915
98 miles NW from Lofoten Islands / Hull - Archangel Captured by submarine U.22 and torpedoed
GROESWEN W & C. T. Jones Ltd, Cardiff
3,570
27.11.1917
3 miles NE ½ E from Sunk lightship / Hull - ? Mined
GRONINGEN General Steam Nav. Co, London
988
23.9.1915
1½ miles N x E from Sunk Head buoy / Harlingen - London Mined
GRYFEVALE Barr, Crombie & Co, Glasgow
4,437
21.10.1917
10 miles N from Cape Blanco, Majorca / Port Louis - Gibraltar Chased by submarine U.151 and ran ashore - total loss.
GUIDO Wilson Line, Hull
2,093
8.7.1915
27 miles NE ¼ N from Rattray Head / Hull - Archangel Captured by submarine U.25 and torpedoed
GUILDHALL Letricheux & David Ltd, Swansea
2,609
25.6.1917
40 miles SW x W ½ W from Bishop Rock / Bougie & Valencia - Cardiff Torpedoed by submarine U.62

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