BORN ARBROATH 1866. SON OF DAVID & JESSIE ELIZA CAIRD. HE MARRIED IN 1901, AT BRIDLINGTON. HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH MARGARET (CROWE), OF 41, WILBERT LANE, BEVERLEY, 30, DE LA POLE AVENUE AND 39, GELNCOE STREET, HULL. A MARINE ENGINEER. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS.
SS Salmo, built by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee in 1900 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman’s Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 1721 tons.
On April 7th, 1917, Salmo, on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine U-60 (Karl Georg Schuster), 210 miles northwest of Fastnet. 3 persons were lost.
CREW LOST ON BOARD SS ‘SALMO’
1. CAIRD, DAVID MACDONALD (50), First Engineer, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †10/04/1917, Son of the late David, and Jessie Eliza Caird; husband of Elizabeth Margaret Caird (nee Crowe), of 41, Wilbert Lane, Beverley, Yorks. Born at Arbroath, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
2. GOLD, ALFRED (32), Fireman, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †09/04/1917, Son of Frederick and Hannah Gold; husband of Maude Gold (nee Whitney), of 26, Rendle Rd., Custom House, London. Born at St. Lukes, London, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
3. MONSON (24), Fireman, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †07/04/1917, Born in Norway, Memorial: Tower Hill Memoria
