BORN HULL 14/01/1883. SON OF THE LATE JOHN HENRY & ELIZABETH WATSON, OF 58, WITTY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
HIS WIFE, MARGARET ANN WATSON, LIVED AT 84, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN (WAR PENSION RECORDS).
HE FORMERLY WORKED FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN STEAM FISHING COMPANY.
HE WAS KILLED BY A MINE EXPLOSION, ON THE TRAWLER ‘OTHELLO II’, WITH SEVEN OTHER CREW, WHEN THEIR SHIP HIT A MINE, ON 31/10/1915. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FIVE CHILDREN AT 84, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 10/11/1915. *
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE LIVERPOOL STREET SHRINE, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916).
ALSO COMMEMORATED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
Othello II, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd., Beverley in 1907 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 206 tons.
On October 31st, 1915, Othello II was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), off Leathercoat. 9 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT OTHELLO II – 123
BALDRY, JOHN WILLIAM (29), Deck Hand (no. 7506DA), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of John William and Maria Baldry, of Grimsby; husband of Maria Baldry, of 63, Tiverton St., New Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
BUTT, FREDERICK JAMES (20), Ordinary Seaman (no. 1592/X), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Memorial: Dover (St. James’S) Cemetery
LOW, HENRY , Engineman (no. 2387ES), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Husband of Gertrude Low, of 14, Edinburgh St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
MCLACHLAN, DUNCAN CAMPBELL (37), Skipper, H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of Hugh and Agnes McLachlan. of Kinning Park, Glasgow; husband of Ruth McLachlan, of 4, Middleton Street, St. Thomas, Swansea, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
MILLETT, JOHN RICHARD , Second Hand (no. 1363S), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
RAMSTER, ARTHUR (21), Trimmer (no. 2246TS), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of William and Mary Elizabeth Ramster, of Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
WATSON, ALFRED HENRY (31), Engineman (no. 2390ES), HM. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of the late John Henry and Elizabeth Watson, of Hull; husband of Margaret Ann Watson, of 84, Eastbourne St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
WRIGHT, FREDERICK (17), Trimmer (no. 3530TS), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of Clara Wright, of 130, Stanley St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial.
