Whiting, John Henry

BORN HULL 1874. WIFE KATE WHITING LIVED 126 PLANE STREET. HE IS LISTED ON THE LOCKWOOD STREET MEMORIAL. SON OF JOHN WHITING, TRNITY HOUSE, POSTERNGATE. DEATH REPORTED IN HDM 29/7/18 & 30/7/18. NOTE: ALBERT WHITING, SEAMAN – 135 NEWSTEAD STREET & ARTHUR WHITING -104 NEWSTEAD STREET, & WHITING’S AT 4 DERWENT AVENUE, ETON STREET, HULL. … Read more

Williams, Leonard James

BORN PLYMOUTH 1901. SON OF MAUD MARY KNAPMAN & JAMES HENRY WILLIAMS, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SERVED AS A WIRELESS OPERATOR ON THE HULL STEAMER. LOST AT SEA ON 21/06/1918, AGED 17. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK SS Montebello, built by Earle’s … Read more

Wager, W

BORN RIGA, LATVIA 1885. SUNK BY SUBMARINE. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH.

Van De Meir, Hans

BORN AMSTERDAM 1890. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. HULL ADDRESS UNTRACED. SS Montebello, built by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1911 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman’s Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 4324 tons. On June 21st, 1918, Montebello, on a voyage from … Read more

Tamm, Thomas

BORN RUSSIA 1888. CARPENTER ON THE HULL STEAM SHIP “MONTEBELLO”. DROWNED ON 21/06/1918, AGED 30. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. SS Montebello, built by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1911 and owned at the time … Read more

Strand, Karl

BORN NORWAY 1873. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. UNTRACED.

Spain, Walter

BORN HULL 09/08/1895. SON OF WALTER LAZENBY SPAIN AND ADA BAILLEY, 105 HAVELOCK STREET. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. EDUCATED AT TRINITY HOUSE. JOINED THE ELLERMAN-WILSON SHIPPING LINE ON 1/07/1914. SHIP’S COOK. SERVED ON THE STEAM SHIPS, OTHELLO, TORONTO, ESKIMO, ALBISTAN, TYCHO, RINALDO, FRUCTIDOR AND MORROCCO. SECOND OFFICER ON S/S BURMESE. LOST AT SEA IN THE … Read more

Sowerby, William Albert

BORN STEPNEY, EAST LONDON 1894. SON OF THOMAS & MARY ANN SOWERBY, LONDON. HE DROWNED AGED 24 AND IS REMEMBERED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR, AND  TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON THE MONTEBELLO WAS A WILSON LINE SHIP, TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF USHANT, ON 21/06/1918, WITH THE LOSS OF 41 LIVES. HULL … Read more

Shuttle, W

BORN LONDON 1879. SON OF JAMES SHUTTLE, BRUCE HOUSE, CAMPBELL STREET. LONDON. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON

Senior, John Bagley

BORN KNOTTINGLEY, YORKSHIRE, 1902. ONLY SON OF JAMES WILLIAM SENIOR & BLANCHE BAGELEY. SERVED AS A NAVAL CADET. LOST ON THE HULL STEAMSHIP “MONTEBELLO”, ON 21/06/1918, AGED 16 LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30TH JULY 1918. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE … Read more