Blakemore, Thomas

BORN ATHERTON, LANCS, 1896. SON OF REUBAN & MARY MARGARET BLAKEMORE, WEST SMETHWICK, STAFFS. DIED AT JUTLAND. LISTED ON THE BEAN STREET ROH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 11/10/1916. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON  PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
During the battle of Jutland, HMS Warrior and HMS Defence, attracted by the drifting hull of the crippled SMS Wiesbaden, closed in for the kill, only to blunder right into the gun sights of Hipper´s and Scheer´s oncoming capital ships.
Defence was deluged by heavy-calibre gunfire from many German battleships, which detonated her magazines in a spectacular explosion viewed by most of the deploying Grand Fleet; she sank with all hands (903 officers and men).
Warrior was also hit badly, but was spared destruction by a mishap to the nearby super-dreadnought Warspite. Warspite had her steering gear overheat and jam and she was steaming at top speed in wide circles. So she appeared as a juicy target to the German dreadnoughts and took thirteen hits, inadvertently drawing fire from the hapless Warrior.
Warspite was brought back under control and survived the onslaught, but was badly damaged and was ordered back to port by Evan-Thomas.
Warrior was abandoned and sank the next day after her crew was taken off at 08:25 1 June by HMS Engadine, which towed the sinking armoured cruiser 100 miles (160 km) during the night. The last shipwreck from the Battle of Jutland 1916, the British cruiser HMS Warrior, was found on August 24, 2016 in the northern North Sea in 83 meters of water a century after it sank. HMS Warrior was heavily damaged during the battle in which 71 crew members lost their lives.