Steam Trawler Leukos
Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) – NW Tory Island – 9th March 1940
Painting by Kenneth King from the National Maritime Museum
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
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- Mulligan, Thomas, Dublin
- O’Scanlon, P.J., Cleethorpes, England
- Smith, Bernard, Marino, Dublin
- Sumher, Robert, Dublin
- Thomasson, James Potter, Fleetwood, England