BORN EDINBUGH, 1892. SON OF JANE & JAMES, LEITH. SISTER HELEN MURRAY ABOVE. SERVED AS ‘WHELAN’. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. ON ST CHARLES CHURCH ROH. ALSO NAMED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON.
JUPITER SS was a British Merchant Cargo steamer of 2,124grt built for Hessler Shipping Co. (Jacob Hessler & Co,), West Hartlepool by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Greenock. In 1915 she was purchased by W. R. Bradley, Hull. She was powered by a triple expansion engine of 222nhp giving 10 knots. On the 21st May 1917 when on route from Dieppe for Manchester in ballast she was torpedoed by German submarine UB-40 and sunk when 15 miles west of Beachy Head, Sussex. 19 dead. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?11647
First name:
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
Regiment:
Rank:
Fireman
Date Died
21/05/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
25
