1916

March

2nd
Cargo vessel Dirigo bound from Canada to Sweden was arrested by British patrol ships and brought into Lerwick where her cargo of barley was confiscated because it was feared that it was meant to be shipped onward from Sweden to Germany.

10th
Norwegian steamer, D/S-Glitra, (JPTL), of Skien, bound for Baltimore, wrecked near Shetland

26th
The Thelma, (1002GRT), of and from Glasgow, Scotland, for Gothenburg, Sweden with a cargo or coal and mixed general goods was topedoed at close range by the German submarine U-20 and sank 24 miles east from Fair Isle. All of the crew were saved, being taken aboard U-20 and transferred to a neutral vessel.
The St. Gothard (2788GRT), of Glasgow, Scotland, from Swarbacks Minn to the Firth of Forth, Scotland on charter to the Admiralty carrying 200 tons of coal, the Admiralty requisitoned armed trawler Sarah Alice, and the Conqueror II, a steam yacht hired to the Royal Navy, were all torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U52 under Kapitanleutnant Hans Walter 12 miles north by west from Fair Isle/6-8 miles off Fitful Head, Dunrossness within minutes of each other. Another British vessel, the trawler Talassa is also recorded as having been sunk in a similar position to the Sarah Alice, on the same day by German submarine activity.
30th
The three Norwegian steamers, D/S Fancy, (MCQB), D/S Hekla, (MDRB), and D/S Hefnia, (JTPM), was attacked and sunk by German submarines U66 and U43, on tour Lerwick - Arkangelsk with a cargo of herring.

4th
The T 19, a Royal Navy requisitioned and armed fishing trawler laden with a cargo of stores for the White Sea, Russia, wrecked on Little Holm in the Bay of Quendale. All of the crew including eight Japanese seamen were saved, as was some of the cargo.

24th
News received of heavy death toll and casualty list of Shetland soldiers at Battle of Ancre. 7 Shetlanders had been killed, 11 wounded and 2 were missing.

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