Gulflight Name Gulflight Type Tanker

GRT 5,189 tons Country American Built 1914

Builder New York SB. Co., Camden, N.J.

Operator Gulf Refining Co., Inc., Port Arthur, Texas

History





U-boat attacks on Tanker Gulflight

Date U-boat Loss type Position Location Route Cargo Casualties 1 1 May 1915 U 30 (Erich von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski) Damaged Torpedoed 20 miles W of Scilly



Port Arthur - Rouen

oil

3



First American ship torpedoed during World War I.







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