SubmarinesHMSR5 and HMSR6 are laid down at HM Dockyard Pembroke Dock; as with HMS L34 and L35 ordered later in the year, they will be cancelled in 1919 before completion.
2 March – The British submarine HMSH5 is rammed and sunk, having been mistaken for a U-boat, off Porthdinllaen. All twenty-six crew are killed.[19]
7 March – The steamship Kenmare is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.[20]
7 April – The steamship Boscastle is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Eighteen crew are killed.[21]
21 April – The steamship Landonia is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Twenty-one crew are killed.[22]
9 May – The steamships Baron Ailsa and Wileysike are torpedoed by a U-boat off Pembrokeshire. Fourteen crew are killed.[23][24]
10 October – Three seamen are killed while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven.
14 October – The steamship Dundalk is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-one crew are killed.[28]
11 November – Armistice Day. Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard HMSGarland, is the last Welshman – and perhaps the last Briton – to be killed on active service in the First World War, in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives.
↑ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p.356.
↑ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p.3.
↑ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p.443.
↑ Ivor Bulmer-Thomas (1936). Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden. Murray. p.197.
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