Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1894 | Ethel Radcliffe | E. Thomas, Radcliffe | |
1907 | Bala | E. Thomas, Radcliffe | |
1915 | Turnbridge | Read Holliday & Sons |
The British steamship Turnbridge was torpedoed by submarine the German submarine U-35, 34 miles north-east of Cape Ivi, Algeria, on December 24th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff to Algiers with a cargo of coal. The 2nd mate, Herbert Hughes, was lost. Master - Alfred Harry Jenkins (b.1869 Cadoxton).
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.