BORN HULL 1890. BAPTISED IN ST PAULS CHURCH, HULL ON 07/01/1891. SON OF JAMES DICK (1853-1934) & MARY ANN BATEMAN (1853-1931), OF 9 ADAS AVENUE, WATERLOO STREET. A MARINE ENGINNER. HE MARRIED EVERLYN BLANCHE DIXON, AT HULL’S HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, ON 28/02/1917. THEY LIVED AT 22, BLUNDELL STREET, HULL (CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS). LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS. HE IS COMMEMORATED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS.
Thanks to Peter Lee for the following information on his relative sent 18/12/15.
S.S. Polandia was built at Hamburg in 1898 by Blohm & Voss for the Woermann Linie. Her original name was the Paul Woermann and she operated on the East African routes for the company. In the first year of the war was she captured at Douala, Cameroon by H.M.S. Cumberland. Her name was changed to Polandia. On the 10th March 1917 she was en route from Birkenhead to Cherbourg, France, with government material when she disappeared without trace. Thirty-one crewmen were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS POLANDIA
AHERN, RICHARD (42), Leading Seaman (no. 1465C), S.S. Polandia, Royal Naval Reserve, †11/03/1917, Son of the late Daniel and Mary Ahern (nee Gibbons), of Barryscove, Ballymacoda, Co. Cork, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
BILLANY, ARCHIE (19), Mess Room Steward, S.S. Polandia, †10/03/1917, Born at Hull, lived at 1 Granville Terrace, Courtney Street, Hull. Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
CONWAY, J (25), Seaman, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Born at Dublin, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
CRONIN, PATRICK , Seaman (no. 2189C), S.S. Polandia, Royal Naval Reserve, †11/03/1917, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
DICK, J W (26), Third Engineer, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Husband of Mrs. Dick, of 22, Blundell St., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
FERGUSON, H (24), Second Mate, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Husband of Mrs. Ferguson, of 43, Holland St., Holderness Rd., Hull. Born at Durban, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
GORDON, JAMES BEGG (25), Third Mate, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Son of the late William Robert Gordon and Marion Gordon. Born at Edinburgh, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HAMMOND, ARTHUR WILLIAM (32), Carpenter, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Son of Henry John and Annie Hammond; husband of Florence Hammond (nee Hope), of 112, Herrington St., Sunderland. Born at Sunderland, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HERDMAN, LEIGHTON (16), 2nd Steward, Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Son of Margaret Morris Gillespie (formerly Herdman, nee Leighton), of Briardene, Garwick, Isle of Man, and the late William Herdman. Born at Holyhead, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HOUSTON, JOHN (33), Able Seaman and Lamps, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Born at Port William, Wigtownshire, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
HUGHES, ROBERT (48), Second Engineer, S.S. Polandia, Mercantile Marine, †10/03/1917, Son of the late Thomas and Jane Hughes; husband of Elizabeth Hughes, of 150, Longmoor Lane, Aintree, Liverpool. Born at Live
