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Battersea Bridge - Lives lost

Masters: 1901-02 GW Lennard: 1904-05 LS Berryman: 1905-06 R Chivers: 1907-09 MS Pallett: 1915-17 E Smith: 1918 John K Cunningham.

Defensively armed & On a voyage from Almeria for the Clyde with a cargo of copper ore Florrieston was torpedoed without warning by German submarine U-91 (Alfred von Glasenapp) & sank 6 miles E ½ N from South Stack, Anglesy on 20 April 1918. 19 lives lost.

Lives lost April 1918: Aitken, David, chief steward, 49, b. Glasgow; Baxter, John, 3rd engineer, 23, Glasgow; Boulton, Thomas, 4th engineer, 25, Glasgow; Cameron, Lachlan, able seaman, 28, b. Mull, resided Glasgow; Cassidy, Hugh, fireman/trimmer, 38, Glasgow; Clelland, Robert, 1st mate, Holmlea Rd. Glasgow; Cunningham, John K, master; Friel, Michael, fireman/trimmer, 28, Glasgow; Fritzhall, Louis, sailor/carpenter, 44, b. Linkoping, Sweden; Kerr, John Alexander Cameron, mess room steward, 17, b. Saltcoats, resided Glasgow; Johnsen, Carl, sailor, 44, b. Russia; McCulloch, James, donkeyman, 51, Glasgow; McGill, John, fireman/trimmer, 45, Glasgow; McLellan, John, fireman/trimmer, 34, Glasgow; Mill, James, 1st engineer, 38, b. Corran Ferry; Rayner, Edwin, fireman/trimmer, 37, b. Manchester; Rogers, George Ernest, private, 32, Maidenhead; Sharpe, Asbert Augustus, sailor, 27, b. Clarendon; Smith, David Templeton, 2nd engineer, 26, Maryport.

 

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