BORN BOSTON, LINCS, 15/04/1888. SON OF ROBERT FISHER (1841-1919), A MASTER MARINER AND HENRIETTA MYERS (1858-1907), OF BOSTON, LINCS. EDUCATED AT HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE. AN APPRENTICE WITH EARLE SHIPBUILDERS AND THEN WENT TO SEA. OBTAINED 1ST CLASS SEA CERTIFICATE. APPOINTED AS RESIDENT ENGINEER AT ROBERT COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE, FOR THREE YEARS. HE MARRIED AT THE BRITISH CONSULATE, CONSTANTINOPLE, ON 07/10/1912. HUSBAND OF ELSIE SLOPER, OF 10 MYRTLE AVENUE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL AND 30 FRANKLIN STREET, HULL. THEY HAD TWO SONS, ALFRED, BORN 16/12/1913 AND FRANK, BORNON, 01/08,1915.
HE RETURNED TO ENGLAND ON THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND JOINED THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. HE WAS DROWNED, OFF THE COAST OF IRELAND, ON 13/01/1915, AGED 26. LOST WITH HENRY KAY, FROM 97 HESSLE ROAD, AGED 23. THEIR STORIES WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON 30/01/1915. HE IS BURIED AT ORONSAY PRIORY BURIAL GROUND, ISLE OF ORONSAY. HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 1, PAGE 134.
HIS BROTHER, SAPPER, LEONARD FISHER AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS, WAS ALSO KILLED ON 25/07/1916, AGED 20. BOTH BROTHERS ARE RECORDED ON THE WILLIAM STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, PUBLISHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 07/11/1916.
S/S Viknor, a 5.347 tons; 421×50 ft armed cruiser; Built by Robert Napier in 1888 as the Atrato for the Royal Mail Steam Co. Ltd. S/S Atrato was a beautifully designed passenger ship, more resembling a luxury yacht than a liner. She was used in the service between England and the West Indies and could carry up to 280 passengers. Bought by Viking Cruising Co. Ltd. in 1912, she was renamed Viking. At the beginning of WWI, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty, equipped with armament and renamed HMS Viknor. She was mainly used as a cruising patrol ship. On 13th January 1915, while on patrol, she sank in heavy weather without any distress call. It was assumed that she was sunk by a mine, belonging to a minefield laid by the Germans. Not a single soul of the 295 crew was saved. Many of the bodies were washed ashore along the Northern Ireland coast, days after the sinking.
