SS Marina Sunk By U-55 in 1916

From the wrecksite site.

The SS Marina was built in 1900 and owned at the time of its loss by Donaldson Line out of Glasgow.  5204 tons.

On October 28, 1916, on a voyage from Glasgow to Baltimore, it was sunk by the U-55 30 miles from Fastnet.(southern coast of Ireland)  Eighteen persons lost their lives.

The Marina was a defensively armed British merchant ship and the torpedo was fired without warning.

A list of the eighteen who died accompanied the article and none of the men from Roanoke, Virginia, were on it.

You Hear A Lot About the Lusitania, But I Had Never Heard of This Ship Being Sunk By a German Submarine.  --DaCoot