Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1915 | Rosalie | Seville & United Kingdom Carrying Co. Ltd. |
The West Hartlepool-built steamship Rosalie was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann) off Djidjelli, Algeria, on 20th February, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from New York to Salonica with a cargo of munitions and oats.
Twenty one crew were lost including one from the Hartlepools:
Frederick Drew.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were:
Banks, J.; Campbell, J.; Capatolis, C.; Ciceres, D.; Couch, John Peters; Djerve, J.; Grey, William Andrew; Gutierrez, Robert; House, James Strout; Liendo, Manuel; Martin, J. San; Mella, P.; Morgan, William; Pedersen, Peder; Petersen, Herbert Henry; Punal, Edgar; Sparkes, Harry; Suarez, M.; Viniegra, M.; Watts, Bertram.
In this section you will find information, photographs and stories relating to more than 260 Hartlepool seamen who lost their lives during during the First World War, and of the ships they served on.
To find a particular crewman, simply type his Surname in the Search Box at the top of the page.
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.