Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1910 | Lorca | English & American Shipping Co. Ltd. |
The steamship Lorca was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-49, 200 miles west of Ushant, on November 15th, 1916. The ship was on a voyage from Gulfport and Norfolk, Virginia, to Calais with a cargo of timber.
All 32 crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Patrick C. Leaman, Fireman, aged 21.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Abbot, Thomas R.; Austwick, Nicholas; Bain, John Emslie; Barnett, Alfred Lambert; Beadon, J.E.; Caros, G.; Cavalieratos, S.; Cilia, Saverio; Fletcher, Sidney Henry; Hardberg, Gustaf; Harvey, Andrew; Hunter, Samuel; Johnston, James; Key, Robert Bell; Lalanza, J.; Lawlor, Morgan; Macalli, J.; Martinez, Francisco; Nilsson, Eric William; Rogers, Arthur Charles; Scicluna, Salvatore; Stafford, John; Stavrus, Demitrez; Steel, John; Trevor, Alfred Norman; Undu, J.; Vallos, C.; Wensberg, Rudolf; Williams, J.M.; Williams, Percival Leith; Willis, Thomas
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.
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