Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1910 | Forestmoor | Moor Line Ltd. |
Torpedoed and sunk by UB-51 west of Gibraltar on September 5th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Huelva to Dublin with a cargo of copper ore.
Twenty two crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Richard Coulson.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Alimoor, Thomas Robert; Best, Edgar; Caesar, Jonathan Cuthbert; Crawford, William; Davies, David James; Dyer, Arthur Ernest; Haley, Thomas Jeremiah; Ingleby, Ernest Clifford; Jenkins, Thomas; Lynch, Milton; Nilsson, Albert Edward; Owen, John Richard; Powell, James; Roberts, Robert Glyn; Rumbellow, F.J.; Shippey, Ernest Edward; Shorey, James; Simmons, William Robert; Vogan, Samuel; Williams, Charles Henry.
In this section you will find information, photographs and stories relating to more than 260 Hartlepool seamen who lost their lives during during the First World War, and of the ships they served on.
To find a particular crewman, simply type his Surname in the Search Box at the top of the page.