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Bussorah - a general history

Official No. 97390: Code Letters LQRP.

Owners: 1890 Thomas Appleby & Co, West Hartlepool 1891-renamed Greatham: 1906 Clydesdale Navigation Co Ltd (Nisbet, Calder & Co) West Hartlepool (Glasgow): 1913 Clydesdale Navigation Co Ltd (G Nisbet & Co) Glasgow: 1916 Dawson SS Co Ltd (FL Dawson) Glasgow: 1917 Coombes, Marshall & Co Ltd, Middlesbrough

Masters: 1890-93 W Humphries: 1895-1906 R Gowing: 1908 OJ Andersen: 1909-11 GAJ Chalmers: 1915 JM Mackay: 1916 RH McClean: 1918 R Harrison.

On a voyage from Grimsby for Blaye, France with 3,100 tons of cargo including coal & a total crew of 26 the defensively armed merchant ship Greatham was torpedoed without warning by German submarine (UB-31 Thomas Bieber) & sank in 50.18.15N/3.30.21W about 3 miles SE of Dartmouth on 22 January 1918. 7 lives lost.

Lives lost January 1918: Austin, Alexander, sailor, 21, b. Glasgow; Carter, Albert, ship’s cook, 44, b. Herefordshire, resided Old Cartergate, Grimsby; Nagi Ali, fireman/trimmer, India; Peggs, Arthur Clifford Sydney, wireless operator, 18, Essex; Readman, Herbert Isaac, boatswain, 35, Spring Bank, Hull; Saleh Yahya, fireman/trimmer, India; South, Frank Arthur, 1st mate, 47, b. Bristol, resided Linthorpe, Middlesbrough

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