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Clearfield

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner
1908 Clearfield Huntings

Fate

Sunk by gunfire from U-55 off Flannan Island, Outer Hebrides, on October 24th, 1916. The ship, a steam tanker, was on a voyage from Invergordon to Hampton Roads in ballast.

All 36 crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born 3rd Officer George Henderson.

The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Abdul Karim; Ahearn, Daniel; Archer, Isaac Newton; Betts, Gerald Godfrey; Cann, William Henry Escott; Crumbie, Bernard; Davies, Philip Evan; Franks, George; Gaine, George G.; Gibson, John Beattie; Gray, John; Grima, Michele; Hazelton, Clarence; Hook, Albert Henry; James, Edward; Jockovitis, Loainy; Lee, John; Legg, Francis; McKeown, Joseph Bernard; Muhammad Ali; Naik, K.; O Brien, John; Parkinson, Frank; Pollard, William James; Robb, John George; Sandal, Kasper; Saunders, Francis James; Shaw, Archibald Auld; Sofogli, C.; Tebble, Herbert William; Thomson, Robert Greig; Touliatos, John; Wares, John; Whelan, John; Wikstrom, Charles.

 

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