BORN ARBROATH 1867. SON OF DAVID & JESSIE ELIZA CAIRD. HE MARRIED IN 1901, AT BRIDLINGTON. HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH MARGARET (CROWE), OF 41, WILBERT LANE, BEVERLEY. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS.
SS Salmo, built by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee in 1900 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman’s Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 1721 tons.
On April 7th, 1917, Salmo, on a voyage from Oporto to Liverpool with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine U-60 (Karl Georg Schuster), 210 miles northwest of Fastnet. 3 persons were lost.
CREW LOST ON BOARD SS ‘SALMO’
1. CAIRD, DAVID MACDONALD (50), First Engineer, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †10/04/1917, Son of the late David, and Jessie Eliza Caird; husband of Elizabeth Margaret Caird (nee Crowe), of 41, Wilbert Lane, Beverley, Yorks. Born at Arbroath, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
2. GOLD, ALFRED (32), Fireman, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †09/04/1917, Son of Frederick and Hannah Gold; husband of Maude Gold (nee Whitney), of 26, Rendle Rd., Custom House, London. Born at St. Lukes, London, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
3. MONSON (24), Fireman, SS Salmo, Mercantile Marine, †07/04/1917, Born in Norway, Memorial: Tower Hill Memoria
