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Cyrene
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1888 | Cyrene | Lumsdon Byers & Co. |
Fate
The steamship Cyrene was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC-31, some 15 miles north of Bardsey Island, Cardigan Bay, on April 5th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from the Tyne to Blaye, France, with a cargo of coal.
Twenty four crew were lost including two from West Hartlepool: William Minto and Henry Parkinson.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Appleby, John Rowley; Bisset, William; Cartlidge, Lionel Isaac; Cribbett, William George; Dilly, Thomas Mckinnon; Guramo, W,; Harding, Joe; Harding, Tom; Hunter, William; Kelley, Charles Adolphus; Kennedy, Edward Hurd; Koko, Jas. A.; Lawrenson, C.W.; Parsons, William Henry; Potts, William Walter; Reid, Alfred Henry; Sheehan, Patrick; Sloan, Charles Croall; Thomas, J.; Thwaites, Joseph Nott; Toogood, Francis Edward; Vance, Alexander.
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Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
