One of the ships sunk by SMS U-33 on Sept. 4, 1915 was the 4,505 ton tanker Cymbeline. She was built in 1902 at Armstrong's in Newcastle for the Bear Creek Oil & Shipping Company and managed by C. T. Bowring & Company. The ship was bound from the U.S. to Dartmouth when located by Kapitänleutnant Konrad Gansser and his U-33. The U-boat opened fire with the deck gun which brought the ship to a stop, while the men were taking to the boats a torpedo hit the ship, destroying one of the lifeboats and killing six crewmen. The remaining thirty-one men, several badly injured, spent sixteen hours in the boats until they were picked up by a sailing vessel and landed the next day.

Cymbeline had been launched Sept. 2, 1902, two days short of thirteen years later she was on the bottom of the Atlantic, the next Cymbeline built in 1927, was sunk Sept. 2, 1940 by the Hilfskreuzer Widder, twenty-eight years to the day after the first Cymbeline was launched and two days short of twenty-five years since the first Cymbeline was sunk.