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Mavisbrook
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Mavisbrook | Steamship Tregenna Co. Ltd. |
Fate
The steamship Mavisbrook was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-50, off Almeria, Spain, on May 17th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Cardiff to Malta with a cargo of coal.
Seventeen crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Thomas English.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Ahmad Muhammad; Bugeia; Chumley, Thomas; Denby, Arthur; Gray, Peter Hawick; Harrison, Charles Ernest; McCull, John; Moloney, Arthur; Morgan, Thomas; Moroney, Michael; Newbery, Cecil Frank; Owston, Henry; Pattle, Charles John; Pearce; Pritchard, David Lloyd; Russell, Bertie Albert
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Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
