The single screw, s.s. 'Harlseywood' (2,701 tons gross register tons) built at the yard of Ropner & Son, Ltd., Stockton, in 1907. She was torpedoed and damaged by U60 whilst en-route from Penarth to St. Nazaire on the 17th of July 1918 with a cargo of coal off Hartland Point. She was subsequently beached and later refloated.

'Harlseywood' was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel requisitioned by the Admiralty for WW1 duties on 19th October 1914.

There was one casualty on the 17th of July 1918, a Norwegian seaman, named Carl Carlsen who died on that day aged 54 years. He is buried at Poundstock Parish Churchyard, Cornwall. [586]

NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL SALVAGE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, S.W. 1. - 19th September, 1919. - Salvage of s.s. " Harlseywood " by H. M. Trawlers " Shikari II." and " Andrew Sack," and H. M. Tugs "Margaret Ham" and " Francis Batey " between the 17th and 22nd July, 1918. - The London Gazette [100] 19th September 1919.

What then occurred to the vessel is somewhat unclear - some accounts state that she was repaired and sold to Swedish owners and then sunk in the River Elbe during 1944.