Length (feet) : | 341.2 |
Breadth (feet) : | 48.2 |
Depth (feet): | 25.0 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 3,600 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | |
Engine Type : | Steam triple expansion; 368nhp T.3 cyl 25, 40 & 67 -45 160lb 90lb |
Engine Builder : | W. Allen & Co. Sunderland |
Additional Particulars : | Official No. 112418: Code Letters RPVW |
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.