GEFFIEN

Also known as GEFION

Lost 25 October 1917
Approx. depth 32 metres
Position 50 30.10N 03 15.29W View on map

Norwegian Steamship [32M] – Captain T. L. Storaas. Cargo COAL. (Clarke: GPS; 50 30.10N; 03 15.29W) Torpedoed and sunk by German Submarine UB-40, Oberleutnant Howaldt. Captain and donkeyman drowned but 14 were saved and landed at Brixham. Refs. Lloyd’s Register: 1915-16 No. 166(G); British Merchant Ships sunk by U-Boats: WW1, p237; British Vessels Lost at Sea: WW1, p71; Devon Shipwrecks: 1974 p164; Dive South Cornwall: p52 & LCWLR: 191 missing text in Larn?