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Names and owners

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.

Fate

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.

 

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