Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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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. |
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.
In this section you will find information, photographs and stories relating to more than 260 Hartlepool seamen who lost their lives during during the First World War, and of the ships they served on.
To find a particular crewman, simply type his Surname in the Search Box at the top of the page.
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.