Sept. 10, 1917 the UC-51 under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Hans Galster sank five sailing vessels
off the Cornish coast. One of them, the Jane Williamson, was located at four in the afternoon. The survivors
stated that the submarine shelled their ship and then fired on the men in the lifeboat killing three and badly
wounding three others, including the master, who later died. They were picked up by a trawler the following
morning, the bodies of the dead still in the lifeboat.

A little more than a month later Galster and his crew would join the Jane Williamson on the bottom of the sea
when the UC-51 struck a mine, none of the twenty-nine survived.