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BORN STEPNEY, EAST LONDON 1857. A FISHING SKIPPER. HE MARRIED CAROLINE ROWLAND (1858-1937), AT HULL, IN 1880. THEY HAD EIGHT CHILDREN IN 18 YEARS. HE WAS LOST AT SEA, WITH HIS SON, WILLIAM, ON THE STEAM TRAWLER ‘EARL’. HE WAS A WEST HULL LIBERAL MEMBER. HE IS LISTED ON THE ON HULL’S ETON STREET MEMORIAL WITH HIS SON.
The Hull trawler EARL (H436) was reported missing in the North Sea on 21/1/1916. CREW LOST ON EARL (H436), missing, result of enemy action, 21st January, 1916. The Hull trawler EARL (1916), owned by the Great Northern Steam Fishing Company, was on Saturday given up for lost. The vessel which carried a crew of nine, left Hull on 21st January for a voyage to the North Sea fishing grounds. Nothing has since been heard of the trawler, and it is feared she has been lost with her crew. [Dundee Courier 22.2.1916] Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?151938
BROWNHILL, A (51), 140 Regent St, Hull. Cook
BUCHAN, William (17), 30 Haddon St, Hull. Trimmer
COATES, William (20), 6 Empringham-Place, Daltry St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
COATES, William (59), 25 Buxton-Ter, Daltry St, Hull. Skipper
JACKSON, Frederick (34), 236 Boulevard, Hull. 2nd/Hand
MASON, W (50), Address not traced. 4th/Hand
MEDWAY, William (55), Nivana-ter, Blundell St, Hull. Bosun
NEWMARSH, George (36), 3 Helen-Ter, Marmaduke St, Hull. Bosun
PATTERSON, B (22), 1 Blenheim-Crescent, Rugby St, Hull. 2nd/Engineer.