Cook, Frank

BORN HULL 1872. SON OF GEORGE & ANNA COOK – 15 FLORENCE VILLAS, ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL. LISTED AS SHIPS CAPTAIN ON THE HULL ELLERMANS WILSON LINE WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR. THIS WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £614 TO WIDOW CLARA COOK.
IIBIS SS was built in 1898 by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany as the HEDWIG SS a German cargo steamer for Flensburger DG (H. Schuldt), Flensburg, Germany. In 1914 she was renamed IBIS SS when purchased by the Western Russian SS Co. On the 12th May 1918, while on voyage from Bilbao to Glasgow with a cargo of ore. IBIS was in collision with SS WHIMBREL, 6 miles W of the Lizard, United Kingdom and sank.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS IBIS
BREACKER, JAMES WILLIAM , Able Seaman (no. London/Z/3778), S.S. Ibis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
COOK, F , Master, Ibis SS, †12/05/1918
DAY, JOHN WILLIAM (JACK) , 2nd Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, His death was clearly a huge blow to his family; his name appears multiple times in the Hull Daily Mail In Memoriam column at least until 1930, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilsons Line Hull
LONGSTAFF, E.T , Second Engineer, Ibis ? SS, †12/05/1918, Taken from Hull Daily Mail In Memoriam column 12.5.1919
MATTHEWS, R , Chief Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, Left two young children Leslie & Doreen, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilsons Line Hull
ROBERTSON, J , Third Officer, SS Ibis, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Roll Of Honour Ellerman-Wilson’S Line Hull
SORENSEN, J , Leading Seaman (no. Wales Z/99), S.S. Ibis, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, †12/05/1918, Memorial: Helston (Porthleven) Cemetery.