Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1903 | Harefield | Unknown Owner | |
1904 | Dunrobin | Dunrobin Shipping Co. Ltd. | |
1906 | Dunrobin | Sunderland S.S. Co. Ltd. | |
1909 | Dunrobin | Munro Shipping Co. Ltd. | |
1911 | Dunrobin | Sutherland S.S. Co. Ltd. |
The steamship Dunrobin was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-53 some 50 miles off the Lizard on November 24th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Almeria, Spain, to the Tyne with a cargo of iron ore and grapes.
Twenty seven of the crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born John George Perkins.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Allen, Sydney; Bearpark, Charles; Bridge, George; Brown, Hubert Cowley; Dick, George Faulkland; Dobson, George William; Evans, Anthony; Goodall, Alfred; Hansen, William Rudolph; Houna, D.; Hurst, James; Ison, H.; Jefferson, William; Johnson, G.; Laybourne, James Pickering; Lennox, Matthew; Lunn, John Henry; McCready, William Francis; Randle, Walter Edward; Rigg, Henry Sizeland; Rodriguez, Mariano; Sheel, Henry Berthold; Sleightholm, Robert; Stephenson, William George; Vickers, Anthony; Young, John Anderson.
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.