BORN HULL 1884. WIFE ALICE (RANSOM) BRAITHWAITE & THREE CHILDREN LIVED AT 4 WILLOW GROVE, SOMERSET STREET, HULL. (1918 VOTERS ADDRESS). A FISHERMAN. HIS SHIP WAS MINED. HIS DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH ARE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 10TH OCTOBER 1918.*
COLEUS was a hired Admiralty drifter (No 2745), built in 1916 of 102 grt and Lowestoft registered as LT.678. Armed with 1 x 3 pdr, COLEUS was in service since May, 1916 as a net vessel, until she was mined of Dover, October 4, 1918. There were 4 casualties. People on board People on board HMD COLEUS123 1. BAMBER, THOMAS FENTON , Trimmer (no. 376TS), HMD Coleus, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/10/1918, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial 2. BRAITHWAITE, FREDERICK (39), Deck Hand (no. 16988DA), HMD Coleus, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/10/1918, Husband of Alice Braithwaite, of 2, The Avenue, Hampshire St., Dairycoates, Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. BULLARD, PERCY ALBERT (24), Deck Hand (no. 5415DA), HMD Coleus, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/10/1918, Son of William Charles Bullard, of Lowestoft, and the late Eliza Bullard; husband of Ruth Boyack (formerly Bullard), of 21, Wellington St., South Shields, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 4. MAUGER, PHILLIP EDWARD , Second Hand (no. 11632/DA), HMD Coleus, Royal Naval Reserve, †04/10/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?257247
