BORN MANSFIELD, NOTTS, 23/10/1886. SON OF AMOS & MILLICENT FEATERSTONE, MANSFIELD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. WIFE ALICE FEATHERSTONE LIVED 69 CHILTERN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE DROWNED THROUGH A SHIP COLLISION IN THE DOVER STRAIGHTS, ON 02/08/1918, AGED 32. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ST JOHN CHURCH THE BAPTIST, WW1 MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
SCANIA was an Admiralty hired drifter (No 2986), built in 1916 of 88 grt and Lowestoft registered as LT-745. SCANIA was in service since December 1916 as a net vessel, when on August 2, 1918 she sank in a collision in Dover Straits. People on board People on board HMD SCANIA123 1. FEATHERSTONE, DONALD ARTHUR (32), Deck Hand (no. 17305DA), HMD Scania, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/08/1918, Son of Amos and Millicent Featherstone, of Mansfield, Notts; husband of Alice Featherstone, of 59, Chiltern St., Selby St., Anlaby Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 2. MACMILLAN (19), Deck Hand (no. DA/13389), HMD Scania, Royal Naval Reserve, †19/12/1916, Son of Neil and Christina Macmillan, of The Braes, Portree, Memorial: Portree Old Burial Ground 3. MCPHIE (20), Deck Hand (no. 13387/DA), HMD Scania, Royal Naval Reserve, †23/12/1916, Son of Donald and Effie McPhie, of 16, Roag, Dunvegan, Skye, Memorial: Kilmuir Old Churchyard, Duirinish 4. PLANE, WILLIAM (20), Deck Hand (no. 17799DA), HMD Scania, Royal Naval Reserve, †02/08/1918, Son of John E. and Alice Plane, of Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?257265
