HMS Cressy

Names and owners

Year	Name	Owner
1899	HMS Cressy	Royal Navy

Fate

The Cressy-class Armoured Cruiser Cressy, and her sister ships Aboukir and Hogue, were torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea by the German submarine U-9, on September 22nd, 1914. Five hundred and sixty crewmen from the Cressy lost their lives, including two from the Hartlepools, Thomas Allison Hall and Thomas Tierney.