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Vasco - lives lost

Masters: 1898 RB Neill: 1900-02 WH Green: 1905 RL Webster: 1908-11 FW Horncastle: 1916 William Donaldson.

On a voyage from Hull for Naples with a general cargo & a crew of 26 Vasco struck a mine laid by German submarine (UC-16 Egon von Werner) & sank west by south of Beachy Head on 16 November 1916. The wreck lies in 50.39.31N/00.02.00W; depth-33m. 17 lives lost.

Lives lost November 1916: Bridegroom, George William, boatswain, 44, Northumberland Ave. Hull; Brooks, HV, ordinary seaman; Burton, John Henry, engineer’s steward, 18, Goulton St. Hull; Cooper, Leonard William, 3rd engineer, 52, b. Leeds, resided Hull; Cooper, Leonard William, sailor, 34, Mersey St. Hull; Coulter, William Alex, able seaman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) aged 24, Glasgow; Donaldson, William, master, 45, Anloby Road, Hull; Foster, Robert Henry, able seaman, 23, b. Seaton, Yorkshire; French, T, fireman, 36, b. Nottingham; Johnson, John William, donkeyman, 46, Kings Lynn; Lawton, J, ship’s cook, 41, b. Hull; Madsen, Neils, fireman, 23, b. Denmark; Nimbley, T, fireman, 20, b. Lagos; Press, Albert Reginald, 2nd engineer, 30, b. Hull; Ramsey, W, chief engineer, 56, b. Dundee, resided Hull; Tago, Prince, fireman, 27, b. Accra; Wood, James William, able seaman, 49, b. Rawcliffe

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