BORN GLASGOW 1890. SON OF EMMA & JAMES THORNTON OF MILTOWN COTTAGE, WARRENPOINT, CO. DOWN. DROWNED IN BRISTOL CHANNEL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. SS Lavernock, built by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd., Newcastle in 1888 and owned at the time of her loss by Allen Adams & Co. Ltd., Cardiff (Southampton), was a British steam […]