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Manchuria - a general history

Completed July 1905; Official No. 19877: Code Letters HCWT.

Owners: 1905 Manchuria S.S. Co. (Metcalfe, Simpson & Co.) West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1906-11 WJ Traylor: 1915-17 Hector Bennett.

On a voyage from La Goulette to Hartlepool with a cargo of iron-ore Manchuria was torpedoed without warning by German submarine (U-53 Hans Rose) & sank 60 miles NW of Ushant on 17 October 1917. 26 lives lost.

Lives lost October 1917: Anderson, James, able seaman, 46, b. Ferrydene, Craig; Anderson, John, able seaman, 57, b. Edinburgh; Andrews, Joseph Shepard, seaman, 42, Dock St, West Hartlepool; Bell, William, fireman/trimmer, 27, Durham St, Hartlepool; Bennett, Hector, master, 37, Gamlakarlcby, Finland; Boyce, William Henry, able seaman, 46, b. Stockton-on-Tees; Brown, Henry Laverick, 1st mate, 27, Pensher Street, Sunderland;

Christensen, Carl Christian, 1st engineer, 60, b. Denmark, resided Wansbeck Gardens, West Hartlepool; Collins, Percy, 2nd mate, 21, b. Workington; Flintoff, John Scott, donkeyman, 54, b. Sutton-on-the-Forest, York; Garland, John, fireman/trimmer, 33, West Street, West Hartlepool; Goodwin, Charles, leading seaman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) aged 19, Clare, Suffolk; Hanson, Albert, mess room steward, 16, West Hartlepool; Harries, Edgar, able seaman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) 19, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire; Kenon, J, fireman, 45, b. Jamaica; Liddle, William, boatswain/lamps, 43, b. West Hartlepool; Mack, Tom Prince, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Salford, Lancashire; Mordaunt, Charles Osbert, able seaman, 35, b. Sunderland, resided Robinson Street, West Hartlepool; Nichol, Daniel, sailor/carpenter, 37, b. Middleton, Hartlepool; Richards, Michael, sailor, 57, b. Dumbarton; Ridley, Harry, fireman/trimmer, 24, b. Middlesbrough; Rumsey, Arthur Ernest, 2nd engineer, 39, Crimdon St, West Hartlepool; Steadman, Joseph, fireman, 30, b. Brighton; Stoddart, William, 2nd engineer, 29, West Hartlepool; Wheeler, Leslie Victor, signalman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) 23, Birmingham.

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