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Mohawk

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1900 Mohawk Menantic S.S. Co. Ltd.
1902 Mohawk North Atlantic S.S. Co. Ltd.
1912 Hungarian Prince Prince Line Ltd.
1915 Belgian Prince Prince Line Ltd.

Fate

The steamship Belgian Prince was torpedoed and sunk by U-55 off the north-west coast of Ireland on 31st July, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Liverpool to Newport News with a cargo of blue clay.

40 crew were lost, including Hartlepool-born 2nd Engineer Thomas Judge.

The other crewmen who lost their lives were:
Barnes, Theodore Grace; Bell, Thomas; Brown, Solomon; Cain, B.; Calam, Frederick George; Christian, Nicholas; Clarke, N.; Cole, J.; Cooper, Ernest; Crissy, William; De Sousa, Charles; Duhig, Michael; Duval, Maurice; Elliott, Edwin Arthur; Evans, James Francis; Fehlmann, Robert; Gilmore, Thomas J.; Griffiths, John; Hassan, H.; Haul, M.; Hempenstall, Charles; Hobson, Hugh George; Hoey, Cyril Jos; John, Alfred; Linklater, David; Loft, Thomas; McGratten, Thomas Henry; Mifaries, Jo; Morton, Niel Mcdougall; Robinson, Ralph Henderson; Rode, G.; Ryan, Thomas; Salet, N.; Sharp, Edward Baden; Shea, James; Skerritt, Charles; Taylor, Henry Nicholas; Thornton, Richard; Williams, John.

 

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