Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

Heading to Boston from Liverpool 27th August 1910 Devonian rescued men from the 3,074 ton West Point. The West Point lifeboat had been pulled up by the davits of the Devonian, and all sixteen men taken on board. The rescued men were wet through, cold and distressed, but after brandy and rum had been administered they soon recovered.

She was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U53 with the loss of 2 crew. She was carrying 500 tons of general cargo and a large number of horsemen and was in convoy making 9 knots, when torpedoed on the port quarter in nos 6 and 7 holds at 11:55 am 21/08/17. One boat was destroyed in the explosion but the remaining eight were lowered and most of the crew got away in them, the carpenter and his mate being killed. A tug and a trawler arrived and picked up some of the survivors who were clinging on the floating wreckage, after which the tug went alongside and took off the master and 12 men. The ship sank at 0:45 pm and the survivors taken to Lough Swilly (big inlet to W of Malin Head) and landed at Buncrana. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Boston when sunk.