Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
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1900 | Kenley | Mitre Shipping Co. Ltd. | |
1913 | Sowwell | Atlantic Traders Ltd. | |
1915 | Sowwell | Sowwell Steam Ship Co. Ltd. |
The West Hartlepool-built steamship Sowwell was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-35 (Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere)in the Atlantic on April 19th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Sagunto, Spain, to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore. Master Alexander Frederick Walton.
Twenty one crew were lost including two from the Hartlepools:
Ernest Moreland Harrison,
Frank Jones.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were:
Anderson, Alexander Ireland; Blackie, W.; Chang Kee; Coser, Thomas William; Daniels, Charles; Denley, John Charles; Dracotos, Sotirios Lambros; Flower, William; Greenfield, William Thomas; Holden, Robert; Holder, Arthur; Joseph, John; McKay, Alexander Neil; Robinson, E.; Rose, Joshua; Turner, Alfred Edward; Walton, Alexander Frederic; Watson, Thomas Henry; Wright, Ernest William.
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.
This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.