BORN HULL 1891. KNOWN AS “BILLY”. ELDEST SON OF FRANCIS WILLIAM MAJOR & ELIZABETH HARRIET (SCOWN), OF 40 GREEK STREET & 15 SELBY STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. (Ethel, Grace, Maud, Edna, Cis (Elizabeth), Claude and Albert Edward Major). A MARINER, AGED 25, HE WAS LOST AT SEA, 27/04/1916. HIS SHIP WAS MINED AND DAMAGED OFF THE HUMBER WITH THE LOSS OF 18 LIVES. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH ON 23RD & 27TH MAY 1916. *
NOTE: HMS ‘KILLINGHOLME’. 24 February 1912 launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull as Yard Nr 584 named KILLINGHOLME for the Great Central Railway Co, Grimsby.
March 1912 completed as a double-ended Humber Ferry.
22 July 1912 was used by King George V and Queen Mary for the opening of Immingham Dock.
21 February 1916 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Fleet Messenger as HMS KILLINGHOLME. Along with her sister HMS BROCKLESBY was also used as a seaplane carrier and was based at RNAS KILLINGHOLME in the Humber Estuary.
26 to 27 April 1916 believed mined and damaged off the Humber with the loss of 18 lives.
21 April 1917 returned to her owners, name reverted to KILLINGHOLME.
1 January 1923 transferred to London & North Eastern Railway Co, Grimsby name unchanged.
May 1941 requisitioned for Admiralty service as a Barrage Balloon Depot Ship in the River Humber, name unchanged
11 August 1941 Lieutenant Walter C Base RNR appointed in command.
25 May 1942 Lieutenant Constantine J Triscott RNR appointed in command.
March 1945 returned to her owners, name unchanged.
30 July 1945 arrived Paull for demolition by J.R. Hepworth & Co.
