BORN HULL 1885. SON OF GEORGE PETHERBRIDGE (1856-1934) & JANE GASCOIGNE NICHOLSON (1857-1897), AT 13 SOMERSET STREET, HULL (CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS). HIS MOTHER DIED IN CHILDBIRTH AND HIS FATHER REMARRIED. HE MARRIED IN 1911, AGED 26. WIFE FLORENCE WARD (1884-1929) AND SON LESLIE BORN IN 1914, LIVED AT 7 , SOMERSET STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY. DROWNED, ON 15/11/1915, AGED 29. HE LEFT £269 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, FLORENCE AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS.
HIS BROTHER, ALFRED PETHERBRIDGE, WAS ALSO LOST AT SEA, ON THE TRAWLER ‘NEPTUNIAN’, ON 27/10/1918. HIS HALF BROTHER, DAVID CYRIL PETHERBRIDGE, ALSO DIED AT SEA, ON 19/09/1918, AGED 20.
Built as the EDWARD B. CARGILL for Cargill Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull; Yard No 206; Date of completion: 23/08/1898; 10 knots; In Jan 1914, tonnage adjusted to 73.7 net tons.
On the 15/11/1915 the Hull steam trawler EDWARD B. CARGILL (H.412) foundered and was lost after detonating a mine off Spurn Point, North Sea.
CREW LOST ON EDWARD B. CARGILL (H412), struck mine off Spurn, 15th November, 1915.
BEECH, Walter (47), 24 Scarborough St, Hull. Chief Engineer
CROSS, John (52), 9 Seaton-ter, Walcott St, Hull. Cook
DONNISON, William (29), 46 Rugby St, Hull. Bosun
FIRTH, Arthur (21), 3 Newington st, Hawthorne Ave, Hull. Trimmer
HALL, Christopher (29), 10 Allison-ter, Walker St, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
HARBOARD, Albert (23), 4 Trent-ave, Eastbourn St, Hull. Sparehand
LYNN, Henry (52), Anlaby Park. Skipper
PETHERBRIDGE, Frank (29), 7 Somerset St, Hull. Mate
ROBINSON, William (21), Devonshire-villas, Wellsted St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
WILSON, Herbert (25), 13 Nellies-ter, Gillett St, Hull. Deckhand
