Battersea Bridge

Masters: 1901-02 GW Lennard: 1904-05 LS Berryman: 1905-06 R Chivers: 1907-09 MS Pallett: 1915-17 E Smith: 1918 John K Cunningham.

Defensively armed & On a voyage from Almeria for the Clyde with a cargo of copper ore Florrieston was torpedoed without warning by German submarine U-91 (Alfred von Glasenapp) & sank 6 miles E ½ N from South Stack, Anglesy on 20 April 1918. 19 lives lost.

Lives lost April 1918: Aitken, David, chief steward, 49, b. Glasgow; Baxter, John, 3^rd engineer, 23, Glasgow; Boulton, Thomas, 4^th engineer, 25, Glasgow; Cameron, Lachlan, able seaman, 28, b. Mull, resided Glasgow; Cassidy, Hugh, fireman/trimmer, 38, Glasgow; Clelland, Robert, 1^st mate, Holmlea Rd. Glasgow; Cunningham, John K, master; Friel, Michael, fireman/trimmer, 28, Glasgow; Fritzhall, Louis, sailor/carpenter, 44, b. Linkoping, Sweden; Kerr, John Alexander Cameron, mess room steward, 17, b. Saltcoats, resided Glasgow; Johnsen, Carl, sailor, 44, b. Russia; McCulloch, James, donkeyman, 51, Glasgow; McGill, John, fireman/trimmer, 45, Glasgow; McLellan, John, fireman/trimmer, 34, Glasgow; Mill, James, 1^st engineer, 38, b. Corran Ferry; Rayner, Edwin, fireman/trimmer, 37, b. Manchester; Rogers, George Ernest, private, 32, Maidenhead; Sharpe, Asbert Augustus, sailor, 27, b. Clarendon; Smith, David Templeton, 2^nd engineer, 26, Maryport.

This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.