Ship Skipper
BORN HULL 01/07/1885. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS & CAROLINE ASHLEY, OF 56, CAMDEN STREET, HULL. SON OF A SEAMAN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WAS MEMBER OF THE BON ACCORD FREEMASONS IN ABERDEEN. HIS WIFE RUTH ASHLEY, LIVED AT 26, CAMDEN STREET, BOULEVARD, HULL. HE WAS SKIPPER OF THE STEAM TRAWLER 'MARGATE' AND DIED AT SEA ON […]
BORN HULL 03/09/1890. SON OF JAMES & ELIZABETH HIGGINBOTTOM, OF 6 NEWTON STREET, HESSLE ROAD & 96, REDBOURNE STREET, HULL, (CWGC ADDRESS). Margate FV (GY218) was a British Steam Trawler of 161 tons registered at Grimsby. She was built in 1897 by Mackie & Thomson Govan, Yard No 133 for Hagerup & Doughty, Grimsby, In 1906 s […]
