SS Aud
{{Short description|Norwegian steamboat}}
{{About|the Norwegian ship|the German vessel which masqueraded under the name Aud|SS Libau}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=Norway |Ship flag=100x35px |Ship name= Aud|Ship namesake=Aud the Deep-Minded (Ketilsdóttir) |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Bergen Mekaniske Verksted, Bergen |Ship original cost= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship completed= 1907 |Ship yard number= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship owner= |Ship operator= J. Kuhnle, Jr., Bergen |Ship homeport= Bergen{{cite web|url = http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10393SS | title = Aud | publisher = The Wrecksite | website = wreckside.eu| accessdate = 14 November 2018 }} |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate= Sunk 30 November 1916 |Ship identification= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship type= Collier |Ship tonnage = {{GRT|1102}} |Ship length={{convert|69.8|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam= {{convert|10.7|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|4.9|m|abbr=on}} |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion= triple expansion, two boilers, {{convert|106|PS|hp|abbr=on}} |Ship complement= |Ship armament= |Ship speed= |Ship notes= }} |
SS Aud was a {{GRT|1,102|disp=long}} Norwegian steamboat, built in 1907 in Bergen, Norway, by Bergen Mekaniske Verksted for J. Kuhnle, Jr.{{csr|register=MSI|id=5602815|shipname=Aud |accessdate=14 November 2018}} During World War I, she was stopped and searched on 30 November 1916 by {{SMU|UB-18}} at {{coord|50|19|N|5|33|W|scale:10000000|display=inline}} when sailing from Cardiff, Wales, to Lisbon, Portugal, with a load of coal.{{cite Uboat.net |id=543 |name=Steamer Aud |type=1ship }} UB-18′s commanding officer, Claus Lafrenz, declared the cargo contraband and sank the ship after putting the crew in the lifeboats. Captain Andreas Stehen and his men were later picked up by the Spanish steamer {{SS|Alu Mendi}}, home-ported at Bilbao, Spain, which had also been stopped and searched by UB-18 but released. They returned to Norway unharmed.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
In April 1916, the German steamer {{SS|Libau||2}} posed as the neutral Aud when delivering a cargo of rifles for the Easter Rising in Ireland.{{citation | url = http://www.ldarch.ie/aud-recovery-2012 | publisher = Laurence Dunne Archaeology | title = AUD Anchors 1916-2016 Centenary Commemoration Project | accessdate = 14 November 2018 | archive-date = 27 March 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170327165737/http://www.ldarch.ie/aud-recovery-2012 | url-status = dead }}
References
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Category:Ships built in Bergen
Category:World War I merchant ships of Norway
Category:Maritime incidents in 1916
Category:Ships sunk by German submarines in World War I
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
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