Maritime record MWX1732 - Remindo

02-FEB-1918: REMINDO, lost with three officers and sixteen naval ratings, cause unknown. (1)

02-FEB-1918: REMINDO, hired 1917, sunk off Portland, cause unknown.(2)

Not included in Lloyd's War Losses for the First World War. (4)

Wreck is upright and fairly intact (5)
Position 5026.17 N 2 43.64W taken from (5)

02-FEB-1918: Attributed to UC-79, Werner Lowe, torpedoed in the Seine Estuary with 20 casualties, attribution based on Arno Spindler, Der Krieg zur See, Part 3, Vol. 5, 1918 (1966), and regarded as suspect. <7>

02-FEB-1918: REMINDO, 258 tons, torpedoed by UC-79 off Portland, with the loss of 20 lives. <6>

02-FEB-1918: 20 crew lost in HMT REMINDO. <8>

Built: 1917 (1)(5); hired 1917 (2)
Builder: Cook, Welton & Gemmell (6)
Where Built: Beverley (7)
Machinery: C D Holmes & Co. Ltd., Hull (8)
Propulsion:Screw-driven, 3-cylinder triple-expansion engine (2)
Boilers: 1 (2)
Official No.: 139957 (8)
Fishing No.: GY 1089 (8)
Master: George Howard (6)
Crew Lost: 19 (2); 20 (4)(6)(6)
Owner: Admiralty (on hire); built for George F Sleight, Grimsby (3)(8)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

Additional sources cited in Shipwreck Index of the British Isles: ADM LL APV 1919 p9

Additional source: ADM LL APV 1919 p9

<1> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<2> Ships of the Royal Navy (Vol 2), p184 (Monograph). SWX4848.

<3> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 964 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> 1990, Lloyds war losses, The First World War: Casualties to shipping through enemy causes 1914-1918 (Index). SWX4540.

<5> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), 55 (p55) (Monograph). SWX1.

<6> Miramar Ship Index www.miramarshipindex.org.nz, accessed on 07-MAR-2019 (Digital archive). SDO20161.

<7> https://uboat.net, accessed on 07-MAR-2019 (Digital archive). SDO20542.

<8> https://www.cwgc.org, accessed on 07-MAR-2019 (Digital archive). SDO20543.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1234062 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 29 2024 1:21PM