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H.M.S. 'Newmarket' 17th July 1917 An auxiliary minesweeper of 833 tons, formerly owned by the Great Eastern Railway Company, 'Newmarket' was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine 'UC-38' on 17th July 1917, south of Nikaria Island in the Aegean Sea. 70 lives were lost.