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Doris Burton

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1914 Doris Burton R.H. Davison & Co.

Fate

The West Hartlepool-registered trawler Doris Burton left Aberdeen on November 20th, 1914 and was later reported missing - believed to have struck a mine and lost with all 9 crew. Four of the men were from the Hartlepools:
Absolom Cave
T.S. Coulson
Hugh Hirst Hawthorn
John William Truefitt

The other five men lost were: Cole, Jacob Grimes; Harwood, Thomas Leslie; Jowsey, Robert; Mansfield, John; Reynolds, William.

 

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