Sinking of Hospital Ship GLENART CASTLE (Ex Galician)
On the 26th February 1918, when 10 miles West from Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, England the ship was torpedoed, without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-56. On route from Cardiff to Brest to pick up war survivors. 186 people were aboard the GLENART CASTLE. 95 lives lost including the master, Capt. Bernard Burt.
They are commemorated on the Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton, Hampshire
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