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Felbridge
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | Felbridge | W.R. Price & Co. | |
| 1908 | Cairnstrath | Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd. |
Fate
The steamship Cairnstrath was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-71, 6 miles south-west of the Ile du Pilier (near St. Naziare), on August 4th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Bilbao to the Tyne with a cargo of iron ore.
Twenty two crew were lost including Arthur Clennett of West Hartlepool.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Anwar Ali; Bell, Andrew; Charles, William; Farah Ahmad; Fraser, William; Heylen, Louis; Hide, Albert Douglas; Hopwood, William Clare Arstall; Jamieson, Magnus; Johnston, John Charles; Muhammad Hasan; Muhammad Yahya Ali; Nightingale, James; Qaid Ali; Royle, James Nathan David; Scott, John Robert; Segin, Rafael; Spencer, William; Thompson, E.W.; Tinn, James; Turner, Roderick George Clunis.
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Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
