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"Mike: The Newmarket (833 gross tons) was built in 1907, the final of four sister ships built by the Earle's Company, Hull. The twin-screw ships were built for the Great Eastern Railway Company. Before the war they operated as mail packets travelling between Britain and the Continent. (The other ships were the Clacton 820 gross tons, the Cromer and the Yarmouth). The Newmarket was commissioned as a minesweeper on 8 October 1914 -- her sister, the Clacton had been commissioned as a minesweeper the previous day. The Newmarket was sunk by UC38 off Nikaria Island in the Aegean Sea on 17 July 1917. (The Clacton was sunk by U 73 on 3 August 1916 while she was going going alongside HMS Grafton off Kavalla Bay in the Aegean Sea. Five men were lost in the sinking.) Sources: John ""Spithead"" on the Forum, John Cave and Richard Burnell of Holyhead Maritime Museum, Wales, ""Railway and other Steamers"" by Duckworth and Langmuir, ""Naval Operations: History of the Great War Based on Official Documents Volume 2"" by Sir Julian S. Corbett, ""British Merchant Ships sunk by U-boats in the 1914-1918 War"" by A.J. Tennant. "