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Boltonhall - a general history

Owners: 1900 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool

Masters: 1902-06 WD Lewis: 1907 J Wilson: 1908-09 HH Rodgaard: 109-11 P Silverlock: 1915-18 H Falconer.

On a voyage from Manchester for Gibraltar with a cargo of coal Boltonhall was torpedoed without warning by German submarine (UB-92) & sank 34 miles SW by W ¼ W of Bardsey Island on 20 August 1918. Five lives were lost.

Lives lost August 1918:

Berkley, Albert Stanley, 4th engineer, 19, South Shields

Davidson, Alexander, 2nd engineer, 57, b. Milford Haven

Edwards, John, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Jamaica

Winter, Andrew, fireman/trimmer, 26, b. Jamaica

Yonge, William Ewing, steward’s boy, 16, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne

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