The photographs in this Gallery feature in the “Heroism & Heartbreak” talking history ‘Matthew Hastings – HMS Char’. They have been kindly shared with this project by Susan Scott, Chris Walker, the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens Collection, and Hartlepool Borough Council’s Library and Museums Services. If you have any further information about Matthew Hastings or HMS Char and would like to share it with us, then please contact us at infodesk@hartlepool.gov.uk