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Guildhall - a general history

Official No. 106978; Code Letters QDBF.

Owners: 1898 Julius E Guthe & Co, West Hartlepool; 1899 West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Co, West Hartlepool; 1915 Letricheux Lines, Swansea.

Masters: 1898-99 F Froni; 1903-09 FH Soares; 1917 John Morgan.

Bound from Valencia for Cardiff with a cargo of oranges & ore Guildhall was torpedoed by German submarine (U-62 Ernst Hashagen) & sank 40 miles off Bishop Rock, Scilly Isles on 25 June 1917. 12 lives lost including master.

Lives lost June 1917:

Bates, William James Worth, 2nd engineer, 25, South Shields

Brown, Daniel Joseph, fireman, 38, b. Liverpool, resided Canning Town, London

Burn, William John Henry, steward, 30, South Shields

Colvin, Oliver Gaudie, 3rd engineer, 24, Sunderland

Davies, Willie, 4th engineer, 21, b. Cwmfelin Mynach, Carmarth.

Frazer, Gordon Bisset, donkeyman, 35, b. Aberdeen

Josenselowsky, T, sailor, 20, b. Russia

Morgan, John, master, 55, Chwilog, Carnarvonshire

Ruiz, Jesus Leonardo, fireman/trimmer, 21, b. Spain

Taylor, John William, boatswain, 26, Cullercoats, Northumberland

Wilson, George Henry, age 15, Albert Terrace, South Shields

Wright, J, fireman, 20, b. Bedlington (son of William & Sarah Ann)

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