The loss of Wave

Information courtesy of Adrian Corkill (Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man)

The 47 ton Fleetwood smack Wave was trawling off St. Bees Head, Cumbria, on March 10th. 1918 when she was captured by the same submarine that had, earlier in the day, captured the smacks Marguerite and Sunrise. Marguerite had been sunk by means of a bomb placed aboard her when she was some 25 miles N ΒΌ E of Beaumaris while Sunrise went down by the same method 18 miles to the southeast of Maughold Head, Isle of Man. The submarine had released the crews of the two former smacks without loss of life. Wave suffered the same fate as the other two, 10 miles SW of St. Bees Head