Kildin

The Kildin (alternatively Kil' din), a steel hulled steamship laden with a cargo of timber, 79.24 L x 11.58 B x 5.51 D metres, 1640 GRT, two boilers, 181 hp, built 1908 W. Dobson & Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Yard No. 158, owner Archangel-Mourman Steam. Nav. Co. registered in Archangel, Russia, Captain J. Karamisheff.

This vessel in passage from Archangel, Russia to Lerwick was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-94, Captain Alfred Saalwächter, at a position given as 61.47N, 00.35W, which falls very approximately at 6 miles E of Lamba Ness, Unst, on July 30th 1917.

The same submarine sank the Manchester Inventor, and the Souma in the same general area the same day, and had sunk the Adalia and the Ingeborg in the same general area the previous day.