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Marmion - a general history

Official No. 132829: Code Letters HWPG.

Owners: 1912 Pyman SS Co, London

Masters: 1916 G Wilson.

Bound from New York for Bordeaux with a cargo of oats & steel Marmion was torpedoed by German submarine (U-93 Helmut Gerlach) & sank 300 miles W ¾ S of Ushant in 46.18N/11.40W on 26 August 1917. 17 lives lost.

Lives lost August 1917:

Abde, Hasan, fireman/trimmer, India

Ali Muhammed, fireman/trimmer, India

Buchell, W, (possibly Brickell) sailor, 20, b. London

Carbaltlo, A, sailor, 37, b. Brazil

Cooke, Henry, 2nd engineer, 42, b. Sunderland, resided Wallsend

Corbett, Robert, apprentice, 17, Weslet St. Hartlepool

Davies, Thomas Hector, 3rd engineer, 23, St Dogmaels, Pem.

Ghulam Muhammed, donkeyman, India

Gosling, William George, assistant steward, 16, Paddington, London

Jamal Ali, fireman/trimmer, India

Kemp, William, leading seaman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) Clyde

Merriman, Joseph William, boatswain, 27, b. South Shields

Muhammad Ali, fireman/trimmer, India

Prendergast, Maurice William, 2nd mate, 28, b. Layton, Essex

Stuart, Robert William, ship’s cook, 30, b. Barbados

Young, James Reginald Bullen, apprentice, 17, b. Co. Sligo

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