BORN HULL 1894. SON OF WILLIAM & ANNIE ROBINSON ABOVE. CWGC, & MERCHANT NAVY ADDRESS. HIS FATHER WAS A TRAWLER SKIPPER AND HUMBER PILOT. SERVED AS THIRD HAND, ON ‘EDWARD B CARGILL’,. THE TRAWLER WAS MINED OFF SPURN POINT ON 18/11/1915, WITH THE LOSS OF ALL HANDS. HE WAS AGED 21. HIS DEATH IS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 18/12/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED, ON HULL’S WELLSTED STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 25 September 1916)
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 (-), 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
