SS San Wilfrido (1914)

SS San Wilfrido was a 6,458 gross register ton steam powered British tanker launched in February 1914 and sunk by a German mine less than six months later. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co Ltd built her at Low Walker on the River Tyne as yard number 856 for the Eagle Oil Transport Co Ltd, launching her on 11 February 1914 and completing her in April. She was the third of four sister ships and was 420 feet long with a quadruple expansion engine giving 11 knots. On 3 August 1914, sailing from Hamburg to Portland in ballast, she was carried by the ebb tide into the minefield off Cuxhaven, making her Britain's first naval loss of the First World War. Her crew were interned at Ruhleben.