Najade
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The Najade (appears in the German record as Naiade), a steel hulled full rigged ship laden with a cargo of oilcake, 1752 GRT, 77.87 L x 11.98 B x 7.01 D metres, built 1888 J. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemunde, Germany, owner Akt. Najade, registered in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway, Captain T. Jacobsen.
This vessel in passage from Galveston, Texas, U.S.A. for Norresundby, Denmark was sunk by the German submarine U 59, Captain Wilhelm von Fircks, at an unspecified position "off" Fair Isle on March 21st 1917. All twenty one souls of the crew were lost.
