Qualla: ST Leukos https://qualla.com/st-leukos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: ST Leukos https://qualla.com/st-leukos ST Leukos: Introduction https://qualla.com/st-leukos/ Six fishing boats worked the bank northwest of Tory Island on the night of 9 March 1940. Five were British. One was Irish. The Leukos sailed from Dublin under the Irish tricolour, unarmed, clearly marked, neutral in a war her country had no intention of joining. At 21:13 the U-38 surfaced in the dark and put a single shell into her engine room. The trawler vanished in smoke and dust. Eleven men went down with her: Captain James Thomasson of Fleetwood, his crew, families spread across Dublin and Lancashire and the islands of Donegal. The other five boats - some of them armed - sailed home unmolested. Why the German captain chose the only neutral ship in the group has never been satisfactorily explained.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/q/st-leukos-wp/gccq-st-leukos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full ST Leukos: An Aberdeen Trawler with a New Flag https://qualla.com/st-leukos/ The Leukos was built in Aberdeen in 1914 at the John Duthie Torry shipyard - a coal-fired steam trawler ordered by the National Steam Fishing Company. During the First World War the Admiralty took her up as a boom defence vessel, maintaining the buoys and netting that kept German...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/q/st-leukos-wp/gccq-st-leukos-the-bank-northwest-of-tory.mp3 0:06 3 full ST Leukos: The U-38 Surfaces https://qualla.com/st-leukos/ Kapitanleutnant Heinrich Liebe's war diary describes what he saw: six steamers running with lights, apparently forming a guard line on a north-south course. He surfaced at 20:00 and waited, on the surface, for over an hour - nobody knows why. At 21:13 he fired a single round from...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/q/st-leukos-wp/gccq-st-leukos-the-u-38-surfaces.mp3 0:06 4 full ST Leukos: The Lifeboat at Tiree https://qualla.com/st-leukos/ She was due back in Dublin on 12 March. She did not come. On 21 March her empty lifeboat washed up off Scarinish on the Isle of Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, 200 miles from where she had been working. Five days later Lloyd's of London declared the Leukos and her eleven crew presum...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/c/q/st-leukos-wp/gccq-st-leukos-the-lifeboat-at-tiree.mp3 0:06 5 full ST Leukos: The Truth from Ultra https://qualla.com/st-leukos/ Peter Mulvany was the grand-nephew of Patricio McCarthy, one of the lost crew. He spent years tracking down former U-boat personnel and reading declassified British intelligence files - Ultra intercepts of encrypted German radio traffic that had finally been opened to researchers...

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