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Stanhope
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Stanhope | English S.S. Co. Ltd. |
Fate
The steamship Stanhope was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-31, 7 miles off Start Point, on June 17th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Barrow to Dunkirk with a cargo of rails.
Twenty one crew were lost including four from the Hartlepools:
James Taylor Ashworth, Thomas Middleton, Arthur Morrell, and John Robinson Richardson.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were; Andersen, Patrick; Carter, Richard Gatenby; Chanioty, Photis; Clark, George; Evers, F.; Flynn, John; Joannan, M.; Midri, M.; Morris, Frederick George; Muhammad Ali; Nelson, G.J.; Petty, Robert Percy; Richardson, Ernest Branch; Snowdon, Robert Steele; Souza, Nicholas; Trenchard, Eli; Weatherill, James.
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Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
