BORN CORNWALL 1870. WIFE SARAH ANN FLETCHER, LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS AND ALSO AT 11 ST ANDREWS STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE HELD A SKIPPER’S CERTIFICATE FOR TWENTY YEARS AND BELONGED TO THE HULL FISHING MASTERS ASSOCIATION. THE TRAWLER, ST LAWRENCE LEFT HULL FOR ICELAND, ON 09/09/1914. IT WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. PRESUMEDD LOST AT SEA, ON 03/10/1914 . HE LEFT A WIDOW AND THREE CHILDREN UNDER TEN YEARS OLD AND ANOTHER TWO LADS WHO WERE OLD ENOUGH TO GO TO SEA. IT WAS ONLY BY CHANCE THAT HIS SON FRANK DID NOT JOIN HIM ON THE ‘ST LAWRENCE’. FRANK FLETCHER WAS LATER LOST AT SEA ON HMT ‘CROWNSIN’ ON 04/05/1916. BOTH FATHER AND SON ARE LISTED ON THE SUBWAY STREET ROH. HARRY FLETCHER HAD BEEN AT SEA SINCE HE WAS A BOY AND ALTHOUGH ONLY 44 YEARS OLD, HAD A SKIPPER’S CERTIFICATE FOR OVER 20 YEARS, SAILING FREQUENTLY TO ICELAND. HE HAD NEVER HAD ANY MISHAP IN CHARGE OF A TRAWLER, BUT AS A MATE IN THE TRAWLER ‘SHAKESPEARE’ WAS SHIP WRECKED OFF THE ORKNEYS SOME YEARS AGO. THE ST LAWRENCE WAS NOT HIS REGULAR VESSEL INDEED THIS WAS HIS FIRST TRIP. THE ‘ST LAWRENCE’ LEFT HULL ON THE 6TH SEPTEMBER 1914, FOR STROMNESS, ON A FOUR WEEK JOURNEY. ITS LOSS AT SEA WAS A MYSTERY. SKIPPER HARRY FLETCHER’S DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 26TH OCTOBER 1914. *
