Regiment: MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)

Last Name
Address
Narrative
O'Brien, Andrew
Fireman
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
92 BOUNDARY STREET, LIVERPOOL, MERSEYSIDE, LANCASHIRE, UK
       
Area
Liverpool
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
30
BORN LIVERPOOL 1888. SON OF PATRICK & ELLEN O'BRIEN. HIS WIFE ANASTASIA LIVED IN LIVERPOOL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. HULL CREWMAN. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and provisions to the Fleet, but was returning to Liverpool in ballast after h […]
O'Gorman, Thomas Christopher
Able Seaman
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
WATERFORD, IRELAND, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Ireland
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
22
BORN WATERFORD 1896. SON OF THOMAS & ROSE MARY IN WATERFORD. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and provisions to the Fleet, but was returning to Liverpool in ballast after having cal […]
Pardoe, Herbert Louis
2nd Officer
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
5 , FARADAY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
       
Area
Faraday Street
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
39
BORN ISLINGTON, LONDON 1879. LIVED WITH WIFE, MARGARET AND CHILD AT THIS ADDRESS. HE ALSO USED HIS GRANPARENTS SURNAME GROTIAN. HE WAS LOST ON THE STEAM SHIP, 'ROMEO', SUNK ON 03/03/1918. 29 LIVES WERE LOST. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE WILSON LINE, WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liv […]
Pitts, Albert
1st Engineer
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
41 , NICHOLSON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Nicholson Street
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
43
BORN HULL 1874. SON OF WILLIAM (MINESWEEPER) & ANN (SPRING) PITTS - 41 NICHOLSON ST. MARRIED 1902. WIFE ROSE (WILSON) PITTS & TWO DAUGHTERS LIVED AT 195 BOULEVARD. HE WAS A FIRST MATE AND MASTER SEAMAN. DROWNED AS A RESULT OF AN ENEMY SUBMARINE ATTACK. LISTED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. HE LEFT £264 IN HIS WILL TO H […]
White, William
Able Seaman
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
, IRELAND, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Ireland
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
37
BORN WARREN POINT, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND 1880. SON OF JOHN WHITE & SARAH BROWN. WIFE ELLEN BRENNEN, AT 291 BURLINGTON STREET, SCOTLAND ROAD, LIVERPOOL. SUNK OFF SCOTLAND. LISTED ON HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and […]
Williams, Bertram Percy
Steward
MM S/S "Romeo" (Hull)
63 , WESTMINSTER AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Westminster Avenue
       
Died on
03/03/1918
       
Aged
32
BORN SOUTHAMPTON 1886. WIFE HANNAH CURTIS LIVED ABOVE. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. Romeo was a 1,730grt defensively-armed British merchant steamer. On the 3 March 1918 when 7 miles South from Mull of Galloway she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine. 29 lives lost, including Master. They included from Hull: ANDERSON, HERBERT […]
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