BORN HULL 1878. SERVED AS McCANN. SON OF CATHERINE & LATE MARTIN SHERIDAN LIVED AT 25 KIMBERLEY ST, & 2 TUBBS PLACE, CLEVELAND STREET.
HIS SON, PTE, JAMES SHERIDAN, 2ND EYR, WAS REPORTED MISSING IN ACTION, AT YPRES, IN 1915, AND IS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 21ST MAY 1915. *
Allen Tony 06/08/2008 HIGHLAND HARRIS SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 6,032 tons built in 1904 by Russell & Co., Port Glasgow, Yard No 518 for the Nelson Line (Liverpool) Ltd (h. & W.Nelson). She was powered by a steam triple expansion engine 3 cylinder giving 640nhp. Engines by Rankin & Blackmore Ltd., Greenock. On the 7th August 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic when 82 miles Nx3/4W from Eagle Island, Co Mayo by German submarine U-96 when on a voyage from Liverpool for Rio de Janeiro carrying a general cargo and livestock. 24 person lost. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?31661
