Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
---|---|---|---|
1889 | Elmville | R. Shadforth & Co. | |
1900 | Elmville | F. Childs & Co. | |
1897 | Elmville | R.W. Brydon | |
1904 | Elmville | E. Jenkins & Co. | |
1915 | Eric Calvert | A. Calvert | |
1918 | Eric Calvert | James Mitchell & Sons |
The British steamship Eric Calvert was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-103 (Paul Hundius), 4 miles south-west of St. Anthony's Point, Cornwall, on April 22nd, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Penarth to Falmouth and Boulogne with a cargo of coal. Two lives were lost.
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.