BORN SWEDEN 1882. CAME TO HULL IN 1906. A FISHERMAN. HUSBAND OF KATE FLORENCE JOHNSON, AT 5, PEASE PLACE, PEASE STREET, HULL AND 16, SANDRINGHAM STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, CHARLES, VICTOR AND IDA. HE SERVED AS A FIREMAN ON THE STEAM SHIP, ‘PRINCESS DAGMAR’. LOST AT SEA ON 07/05/1918, AGED 36. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON AND THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
Princess Dagmar SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 913grt and was defensively-armed. She was built by Napier & Miller, Old Kilpatrick in 1907and was powered by a steam triple expansion engine which gave 8.5 knots. On the 7th May 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk without warning in the Bristol Channel by German submarine U-54 when on passage from Swansea for France with a cargo of coal. 24 lives lost including Master.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS PRINCESS DAGMAR
ADLINGTON, W (22), Leading Seaman (no. Bristol Z/6497), S.S. Princess Dagmar, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †07/05/1918, Son of Jethro and Lucy Jane Adlington, of Main St., Danesmoor, Chesterfield. Born at Ashover, Memorial: Ashover Cemetery
ANGUS, WILLIAM , Greaser, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
BISHOP, T J , Able Seaman, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Memorial: Marhamchurch (St. Marwenne) Churchyard
BISHOP, THOMAS (26), Able Seaman, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Husband of Mary Bishop (nee Coulson), of 25, New Victoria St., Dunston-on-Tyne. Born at Darjeeling, India, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
CUBBON, THOMAS JAMES (22), Able Seaman, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Son of Isabella Gertrude Cubbon (nee Faragher), of Mona Cottage, Colby, Isle of Man, and the late Evan Cubbon, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HANSEN, JOHAN GUSTAV BERG , Cook, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Son of Nelavine Karoline Nilsen, of Old Age Home of Vaagan, Storvaagan, Norway, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HAYTON, HERBERT , Cooks Boy, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HUGHES, THOMAS , Chief Engineer, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Husband of Mrs. Hughes, of 111, Carisbrooke Rd., Walton, Liverpool, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
JOHNSON, CHARLES (66), Seaman (no. 4136B), S.S. Princess Dagmar, Royal Naval Reserve, †07/05/1918, Husband of the late Elizabeth Johnson, of 3, Carlisle Place, West Hartlepool, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
JOHNSON, VICTOR , Fireman, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Husband of Mrs. Johnson, of 5, Pease Place, Pease St., Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
JONES, WILLIAM (56), Master, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Son of William and Elizabeth Jones, of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll; husband of Ellen Jones, of 15, Adelaide St., Poulton, Wallasey, Cheshire, Memorial: Llanfair-Pwllgwyngyll (St. Mary) Churchyard
KEMP, WILLIAM (31), Winchman, S.S. Princess Dagmar, Mercantile Marine, †07/05/1918, Husband of Ellen Kemp (nee Boyle), of 12, Lord Milton St., Newcastle-on-Tyne. Born in London, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
KILLEY, PHILIP EDWARD (29), Second
