SS Bakio was a British-built steamship operated by the Spanish shipping company Naviera Sota y Aznar. The ship was built in 1904 and sunk on 30 April 1916 by German U-boat , the same U-boat that sank the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915.
Career
Bakio was built in 1904 by the Campbeltown Shipbuilding Company in Scotland and sold to the Spanish shipping company Naviera Sota y Aznar, based in Bilbao. The ship was last spotted on 29 April 1916 off the coast of Peniche, Portugal. The ship was traveling from Sagunto, Spain, to Montreal, Canada, carrying a cargo of iron ore. The ship was sunk on 30 April 1916 by German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean after being struck by torpedoes. The site of the wreck has never been located.
The sinking of Bakio by U-20 seems to contradict the U-boat's sinking of the French schooner the next day, 1 May 1916, south of Ireland. The schooner was sunk away from Bakios last known location off Peniche, and at the U-boat's top speed of , it would have taken just under 40 hours to travel from Bakios last known location to where Bernadette was sunk.
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