{"id":549,"date":"2024-03-21T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/?p=549"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:22:52","slug":"remember-steam-trawler-leukos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/remember-steam-trawler-leukos\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember &#8211; Steam Trawler Leukos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">Steam Trawler Leukos<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\" wp-image-552\" style=\"border: #000000 6px outset;\" src=\"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/St_leukos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/St_leukos.jpg 502w, https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/St_leukos-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) \u2013 NW Tory Island \u2013 9th March 1940<br \/>Painting by Kenneth King from the National Maritime Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0<em>Leukos<\/em>\u00a0was 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\u00a0<em>Leukos<\/em>\u00a0might have attempted to ram the\u00a0<em>U-38<\/em>. 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\u00a0<a title=\"contributed by WPIMAR\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ST_Leukos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wikipedia article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Cullen, Michael,\u00a0<em>Ringsend, Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Donnelly, William,\u00a0<em>Fleetwood, England<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gill, Tony,\u00a0<em>Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hawkins, James,\u00a0<em>Ringsend, Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">McCarthy, Patricio,\u00a0<em>Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">McLeod, T.,\u00a0<em>Fleetwood, England<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mulligan, Thomas,\u00a0<em>Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">O&#8217;Scanlon, P.J.,\u00a0<em>Cleethorpes, England<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Smith, Bernard,\u00a0<em>Marino, Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sumher, Robert,\u00a0<em>Dublin<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thomasson, James Potter,\u00a0<em>Fleetwood, England<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Trawler Leukos The\u00a0Leukos\u00a0was 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\u00a0Leukos\u00a0might have attempted to ram the\u00a0U-38. Alternatively, as the Leukos was on the British registry until 1928,<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/2024\/03\/21\/remember-steam-trawler-leukos\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seswpcourse.hosted7.connect.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}