Apprentice
BORN GRANTHAM, LINCS 1900. ONLY SON OF ERNEST CHRISTMAS CLARKE & HARRIET ANN CLARKE, OF 10 VINE STREET, GRANTHAM. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HIS DEATH IS LISTED IN HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Polo, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1913 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., H […]
1st Engineer
BORN HULL 11/10/1871. SON OF JAMES ROBINSON AND ANN ELIZA RICHARDSON (1841-1913). HE MARRIED MINNIE STEPHENSON (1870-1930), AT HULL, ON 30/09/1891. THEY HAD THREE SONS AND A DAUGHTER. MINNIE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH WILLIAM GOOD & WAS DIVORCED ON 06/08/1900. HE RE-MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1906, AGED 34. HIS NEXT WIFE, MARY HANNAH "POLLY" SPENCE […]
5 JAMES' BUILDINGS, STANIFORTH PLACE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
12/02/1918
Aged
48
BORN HULL 1869. SON OF JOSEPH SERGEANT (1850-1905) & ASENATH WREGHIT (1849-1915), OF 11 RICHARD PLACE, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). SERVED AS THE COOK ON THE STEAM SHIP, 'POLO'. DROWNED 12/02/1918, AGED 48. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. SS Polo, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 1862. SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH & SARAH WESTOBY ABOVE. LOST AT SEA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 03/01/1918. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. SS Polo, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1913 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, […]
