Year |
Name |
Owner |
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1900 | Boltonhall | West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company Limited |
The West Hartlepool-registered steamship Boltonhall was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-92, 34 miles south-west of Bardsey Island on August 20th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Manchester to Gibraltar with a cargo of coal. Master - H. Falconer.
Five crewmen lost their lives.
The steamship Boltonhall alongside at an unknown port.
More detail »Owners: 1900 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool
Masters: 1902-06 WD Lewis: 1907 J Wilson: 1908-09 HH Rodgaard: 109-11 P Silverlock: 1915-18 H Falconer.
On a voyage from Manchester for Gibraltar with a cargo of coal Boltonhall was torpedoed without warning by German submarine (UB-92) & sank 34 miles SW by W ¼ W of Bardsey Island on 20 August 1918. Five lives were lost.
Lives lost August 1918:
Berkley, Albert Stanley, 4th engineer, 19, South Shields
Davidson, Alexander, 2nd engineer, 57, b. Milford Haven
Edwards, John, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Jamaica
Winter, Andrew, fireman/trimmer, 26, b. Jamaica
Yonge, William Ewing, steward’s boy, 16, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne
More detail »This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.