Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1895 | Middleton | H. Samman & Co. | |
1911 | Middleton | Capper, Alexander |
Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), south-west of Crete, on November 30th, 1915. The ship was on a voyage from Mudros, Greece, to Alexandria with a cargo of sandbags. Master H. Battray. 4 crew were lost.
Campbell, Thomas Hugh; Howells, Henry; Kennedy, Richard Henry; Marks, James.
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.