Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1896 | Eversley | H. Scholefield & Son | |
1916 | Isleworth | Watts Watts & Co. |
The steamship Isleworth was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-17, 3 miles south-west of Ventnor Pier, Isle of Wight, on April 30th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Bilbao to Middlesbrough with a cargo of iron ore.
Twenty nine of the crew were lost including two from the Hartlepools: James Garrett, Captain, and 2nd Engineer William Henry Stone.
The other crewmwn who lost their lives were: Abdul Hamid; Ahmad Hasan; Alloway; Bain, William; Bates, William Ernest; Casey, Thomas John; Fisher, Hector Fuge; Hansen, H.; Hardy, Wilfred C.; Hawkey, Mervyn Collier; Heatley, William; James, Reginald Henry; Jones, John Daniel; Levett, George Newton; Lumsden, Forbes Pratt; Muhammad Saleh; Musa Ahmad; Reidy, Maurice; Sale Muhammad; Saleh Ahmad; Siddle, Joseph; Simms, Gordon Lutwitch; Slack, George Ronald; Smith, Thomas Andrew; Thomas, Joseph; Vickery, Edgar George; Williams, Philip Rees.
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.