Cymric (schooner)

Cymric
History
United Kingdom
Name	Cymric
Builder	William Thomas and Sons
Launched	1893
Ireland
Owner	Captain Richard Hall of Arklow
Acquired	1906
United Kingdom
Acquired	c.1915
Ireland
Owner	Halls of Arklow
Acquired	c.1919
Fate	Vanished with all hands in 1944 during World War II
General characteristics
Class and type	Iron barquentine
Tonnage	228 grt
Length	123 ft (37 m)
Beam	24 ft (7.3 m)
Draught	10 ft 8 in (3.25 m)[1]
Propulsion	Sail, Auxiliary motor fitted in World War I
Sail plan	Three masted

Cymric was a British and Irish schooner, built in 1893. She joined the South American trade in the fleet of Arklow, Ireland, in 1906. She served as a British Q-ship during the First World War; she failed to sink any German U-boats, but did sink a British submarine in error.^[2]

After the war, she returned to the British and, later, the Irish merchant service. In Ringsend, Ireland, she collided with a tram, her bowsprit smashing through the tram's windows.^[3] In 1944, during the Second World War, sailing as a neutral, she vanished without trace with the loss of eleven lives.