Hildawell - a general history

Completed September 1892; Official No. 98530: Code Letters MSRF.

Owners: 1892 G.B. Harland & Co, West Hartlepool: 1903 T.W. Willis & Co, West Hartlepool

Masters: 1893 TW Wilson: 1894-97 WR Willis: 1897 E Whitton: 1898-1911 WR Willis: 1915-16 Henry Ingram.

Hildawell sailed from Bilbao on 12 December 1916 bound for Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron-ore & dropped her Downs pilot off at Yarmouth on 19 December 1916. It is thought that she struck a mine in the North Sea laid by German submarine (U-32 Herbert Brever) & sank off Sunderland on 20 December 1916 (There is a discrepancy in where the vessel was lost as she was also reported as being seen off Yarmouth on 19 December) 22 lives lost including master.

Lives lost December 1916:

Capsey J, able seaman, 46, b. Portsmouth

Clarke, John Stephen Lloyd, donkeyman, 26, Garrick Street, South Shields

Hansell, Robert Ernest, 1^st mate, 26, b. West Hartlepool

Helland, M, able seaman, 30, b. Norway

Henderson, Benjamin, fireman, 32, South Shields

Ingram, Henry, master, 56, Vespasian Street, South Shields

Kaju, Joseph, sailor, 23, Isle of Dago, Esthonia

Kohn, Ole, fireman/trimmer, 24, b. Norway

Lee, Thomas Wallis, steward, 27, b. West Hartlepool, resided South Shields

Parkin, Richard Jefferson, fireman, 45, b. Monkwearmouth

Patterson, Robert Masters, ship’s cook, 26, Williamson St. South Shields

Petersen, Alexander, able seaman, 33, Vidlin, Shetlands

Prentice, Robert, 2^nd engineer, 33, West Hartlepool

Pulli, Jacob, sailor, 22, b. Russia

Rowlands, Harold, boatswain, 33, b. Yarmouth, resided West Hartlepool

Screeton, George Robert, 2^nd mate, 21, b. Hull

Small, F, fireman, 39, b. Greenock

Stubbernd, HC, sailor, 21, b. Norway

Warren, David Stewart, mess room steward, 17, West Hartlepool

Wheeler, George William, fireman, 42, b. Portsmouth

Wilmhurst, Walter, 3^rd engineer, 20, Middlesbrough

Witten, Richard Arthur, 1^st engineer, 44, b. Ipswich, resided West Hartlepool

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