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Harefield
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | Harefield | Unknown Owner | |
| 1904 | Dunrobin | Dunrobin Shipping Co. Ltd. | |
| 1906 | Dunrobin | Sunderland S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
| 1909 | Dunrobin | Munro Shipping Co. Ltd. | |
| 1911 | Dunrobin | Sutherland S.S. Co. Ltd. |
Fate
The steamship Dunrobin was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-53 some 50 miles off the Lizard on November 24th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Almeria, Spain, to the Tyne with a cargo of iron ore and grapes.
Twenty seven of the crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born John George Perkins.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Allen, Sydney; Bearpark, Charles; Bridge, George; Brown, Hubert Cowley; Dick, George Faulkland; Dobson, George William; Evans, Anthony; Goodall, Alfred; Hansen, William Rudolph; Houna, D.; Hurst, James; Ison, H.; Jefferson, William; Johnson, G.; Laybourne, James Pickering; Lennox, Matthew; Lunn, John Henry; McCready, William Francis; Randle, Walter Edward; Rigg, Henry Sizeland; Rodriguez, Mariano; Sheel, Henry Berthold; Sleightholm, Robert; Stephenson, William George; Vickers, Anthony; Young, John Anderson.
Related items :
Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
