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Ventmoor
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Ventmoor | North Moor Steamships Ltd. | |
| 1906 | Ventmoor | Moor Line Ltd. |
Fate
The steamship Ventmoor was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-37, off Skyros in the Aegean, on February 14th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Mudros, Greece, to Sfax, Tunisia.
Twenty one crew were lost including Hartlepool-born Chief Engineer William Wake.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Ahmad Ismail; Ali Muhammad; Beggins, Edward John; Campbell, Felix Angelo; Clark, John Hume; Cox, Frederick; Cruickshank, John; Ellis, Charles; Giroux, Alfred; Lagesse, Lier; Mackenzie, Hector; Murshid Ali; Norris, Henry Charles Cumming; Parkman, William Richard; Sabbah Muhammad; Sinclair, Robert; Stewart, John Henry; Subramma; Wilkinson, Otway Seymour; Winlo, H.B.
Related items :
Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
