Sunk with all 11 hands by gunfire from U-38 (Liebe) – NW Tory Island – 9th March 1940
The Leukos was fishing in the company of British trawlers and she may have positioned herself between these fleeing trawlers and the U-boat in the vain belief that her status as a neutral would be respected. Alternatively the Leukos might have attempted to ram the U-38. Alternatively, as the Leukos was on the British registry until 1928, U-38 might have old information and thought that she was British, falsely flying the tricolour
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- Cullen, Michael, Ringsend, Dublin
- Donnelly, William, Fleetwood, England
- Gill, Tony, Dublin
- Hawkins, James, Ringsend, Dublin
- McCarthy, Patricio, Dublin
- McLeod, T., Fleetwood, England
- Mulligan, Thomas, Dublin
- O’Scanlon, P.J., Cleethorpes, England
- Smith, Bernard, Marino, Dublin
- Sumher, Robert, Dublin
- Thomasson, James Potter, Fleetwood, England
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