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Marmion

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1912 Marmion Pyman S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

The West Hartlepool-owned steamship Marmion was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-93 off north-west Spain on August 26th, 1917. The ship was on voyage from New York to Bordeaux, with general cargo.

Seventeen crew were lost including one from the Hartlepools:
Robert Corbett.

The other crew lost were:
Abde Hasan; Ali Muhammad; Buchell, W.; Carbaltlo, A.; Cooke, Henry; Davies, Thomas Hector; Ghulam Muhammad; Gosling, William George; Hasan Liaqat; Jamal Ali; Kemp, William; Merriman, Joseph William; Muhammad Ali; Prendergast, Maurice William; Stuart, Robert William; Young, James Reginald Bullen.

 

 

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