Remember: Steam Trawler Leukos

Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) - NW Tory Island - 9th March 1940 The Leukos was fishing in the company of British trawlers and she may have positioned herself between these fleeing trawlers and the U-boat in the vain belief that her status as a neutral would be respected. Alternatively the Leukos might have attempted to ram the U-38. Alternatively, as the Leukos was on the British registry until 1928, U-38 might have old information and thought that she was British, falsely flying the tricolour Read the wikipedia article

Cullen, Michael, Ringsend, Dublin
Donnelly, William, Fleetwood, England
Gill, Tony, Dublin
Hawkins, James, Ringsend, Dublin
McCarthy, Patricio, Dublin
McLeod, T., Fleetwood, England
Mulligan, Thomas, Dublin
O'Scanlon, P.J., Cleethorpes, England
Smith, Bernard, Marino, Dublin
Sumher, Robert, Dublin
Thomasson, James Potter, Fleetwood, England

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