BORN HULL 1853. SON OF ROBERT & VIOLET BARTLETT. (HDM 06/03/1916). HE MARRIED LOUISA KITCHING, IN 1873. LIVED AT 39 EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL AND AT THIS ADDRESS.
HE LOST HIS LIFE ON THE EVE OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER 50 YEARS AT SEA, WHEN HIS STEAMER COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER. OUT OF A CREW OF 23, ONLY SEVEN SURVIVED. ALL OFFICERS, INCLUDING CAPTAIN BARTLETT, WERE LOST AT SEA. THERE IS NO CWGC RECORD OF HIS DEATH.
HIS YOUNGEST SON ROBERT DENTON BARTLETT, DIED ON THE ‘SAPPHO’ IN 1915. WHICH AFFECTED HIM GREATLY.
THEY HAVE A FAMILY GRAVE IN WESTERN CEMETERY. HE WAS ONE OF HULL’S WELL KNOWN SEA CAPTAINS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE YORKSHIRE POST ON THE 2ND AUGUST 1917 & THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 01/08/1917. *
First name:
ROBERT
Regiment:
Rank:
Master
Date Died
29/07/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
64
, ST HILDA STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
