Fluent

Type of vessel - Steam ship

How sunk – Torpedoed

Former names – None

Wreck height - 7m

Travelling from New York to London via Plymouth with 6100 tons of cargo the ‘Fluent’ when torpedoed by the mine laying U-boat UC-65. All 29 crew evacuated successfully.

The wreck lies over to starboard and the forward holds appear to be stuffed full of projectiles, but they are in fact ‘round cornered billets’.

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