SS "Donegal" (hospitalship)
Son of Letitia Clifford, of ., Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim & the late Robert Clifford.
Born at Belfast,
Allen Tony † 17/04/2008:
" DONEGAL SS was 1,885grt, defensively-armed British merchant steamer ......
was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 for conversion to a hospital ship .
On the 17th April 1917, carrying 639 British wounded soldiers from Le Havre to Southampton, DONEGAL was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-21, 19 miles South from Dean Light Vessel.
29 of the British wounded soldiers and 11 crew went down with the DONEGAL"
Son of Letitia Clifford, of ., Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim & the late Robert Clifford.
Born at Belfast,
Allen Tony † 17/04/2008:
" DONEGAL SS was 1,885grt, defensively-armed British merchant steamer ......
was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 for conversion to a hospital ship .
On the 17th April 1917, carrying 639 British wounded soldiers from Le Havre to Southampton, DONEGAL was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-21, 19 miles South from Dean Light Vessel.
29 of the British wounded soldiers and 11 crew went down with the DONEGAL"
SS "Donegal" (hospitalship)
Son of Letitia Clifford, of ., Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim & the late Robert Clifford.
Born at Belfast,
Allen Tony † 17/04/2008:
" DONEGAL SS was 1,885grt, defensively-armed British merchant steamer ......
was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 for conversion to a hospital ship .
On the 17th April 1917, carrying 639 British wounded soldiers from Le Havre to Southampton, DONEGAL was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-21, 19 miles South from Dean Light Vessel.
29 of the British wounded soldiers and 11 crew went down with the DONEGAL"
Son of Letitia Clifford, of ., Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim & the late Robert Clifford.
Born at Belfast,
Allen Tony † 17/04/2008:
" DONEGAL SS was 1,885grt, defensively-armed British merchant steamer ......
was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 for conversion to a hospital ship .
On the 17th April 1917, carrying 639 British wounded soldiers from Le Havre to Southampton, DONEGAL was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-21, 19 miles South from Dean Light Vessel.
29 of the British wounded soldiers and 11 crew went down with the DONEGAL"
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