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Treveal

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1909 Treveal Hain S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

The steamship Treveal was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-53 off the Skerries, Anglesey, on February 4th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Algiers to Barrow with a cargo of iron ore.

Thirty three crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Messroom Steward Arthur Leonard Brown.

The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Allen, Horace William; Boler, James Matthew; Carroll, Ronald Frederick William; Clemo, Richard Henry Campion; Costa, J.; Cruis, J.; Davies, Benjamin; Dillon, Gilbert; Fonseca, A.; Gomes, Francois G.; Gutierrez, Luis; Harte, James; Holbrook, George; Jackson, Hubert; Kalsu, Pride; Martin, Sidney Sherring; McSherry, C.; Mills, Samuel Arnold; Moran, Charles Foscolo; Murley, Albert George; Nissfolk, Karl Axel Anderson; Patterson, J.; Power, Archibald Anthony John; Rasmussen, K.; Sabino, Antonio; Sadler, Joseph Henry; Taylor, Alfred; Topp, James; Varley, Thomas Henry; Waddington, Arthur Balfour; Williams, William Thomas; Young, Archibald Gilbert; Young, Reginald John.

 

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