SS ''Aud'' was a Norwegian steamboat, built in 1907 in

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, by

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for J. Kuhnle, Jr. During

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, she was stopped and searched on 30 November 1916 by at when sailing from

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, with a load of coal. ''UB-18''′s commanding officer, Claus Lafrenz, declared the cargo contraband and sank the ship after putting the crew in the

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. Captain Andreas Stehen and his men were later picked up by the Spanish steamer , home-ported at

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, which had also been stopped and searched by ''UB-18'' but released. They returned to Norway unharmed. In April 1916, the German steamer posed as the neutral ''Aud'' when delivering a cargo of rifles for the Easter Rising in

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