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Death is unstoppable. It inevitably comes for us all in the end, its approach inexorable, sometimes shambling towards us and stalking us as we grow old and sick, and sometimes lunging at us to snatch us away. We avoid it, we run from it, but ultimately we cannot hide from it. Yet sometimes, there have... Read more »
The Clan Line steamers were based out of Newport, Glasgow and Liverpool and it was a name famous in merchant shipping. On October 15 1914, the Clan Grant was steaming 150 miles off Minikoi near the Maldive islands off the south-west coat of India. The Emden spotted her and captured her, however her cargo was not deemed to be useful enough and the Newport-based ship was sunk by gunfire. Often crews were less fortunate. In October 1916 the Newport trader SS Penylan was steaming off the coast of Algeria when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine U-39 when it was five miles west o...