Windsor Hall:
The Windsor Hall was a cargo ship of 3,693 Grt. built at W. Doxford & Sons, Ltd., Sunderland for the Windor Hall Steamship Co. Ltd., (Hansen Brothers, Ltd), Cardiff, London. Launched 21 July 1910 and completed the following August, the ship was 105.2 meters in length, 14.7 meters in beam, with a single screw and a cruising speed of 9.5 knots.
No Photo Available On 17 January 1918, while on the Karachi-Marseille route with a cargo of barley and grain, the Windsor Hall was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-66 (Fritz Wernicke) 45 miles Northwest of Alexandria with the loss of 27 lives. Master taken prisoner. References: Miramar Single Ship Report for "1128516" http://www.uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/6564.html http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/WWI%20LOSSES-W.htm |