Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1911 | Mavisbrook | Steamship Tregenna Co. Ltd. |
The steamship Mavisbrook was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-50, off Almeria, Spain, on May 17th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff to Malta with a cargo of coal.
Seventeen crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Thomas English.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Ahmad Muhammad; Bugeia; Chumley, Thomas; Denby, Arthur; Gray, Peter Hawick; Harrison, Charles Ernest; McCull, John; Moloney, Arthur; Morgan, Thomas; Moroney, Michael; Newbery, Cecil Frank; Owston, Henry; Pattle, Charles John; Pearce; Pritchard, David Lloyd; Russell, Bertie Albert
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.