BORN YARMOUTH 1892. SON OF SARAH ANN MILLS EASTICK & THE LATE CHRISTOPHER HARBOARD (1854-1915), OF 24 TYNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HIS MOTHER SARAH LOST FOUR SONS AND HER HUSBAND IN WW1.
HIS WIFE MAUD MARY (THACKER) LIVED 4, TRENT AVENUE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL. HE SERVED AS A SPARE HAND. DROWNED 15/11/1915, AGED 23.
HIS FATHER, CHIRTOPHER HARBOARD (1854-1915) was lost on the Steam ship “Tors”, on 30/07/1915, aged 50. Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
HIS BROTHER, CHRISTOPHER E HARBOARD (1890-1918) A FISHERMAN, DIED IN HULL, 1918, AGED 29.
HIS BROTHER, ERNEST GEORGE HARBOARD (1894-1920), MERCHANT SEAMAN, DIED ON THE STEAM TRAWLER “EAGLET”, IN 1920, AGED 26.
HIS HALF BROTHER, JAMES ALFRED EASTICK ( 1872-1916), WAS LOST ON THE STEAM TRAWLER, “HOLLAND” ON 15 MARCH 1916, AGED 46. (THIS WAS A SON FROM HIS MOTHERS FIRST MARRIAGE)
Built as the EDWARD B. CARGILL for Cargill Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull; Yard No 206; Date of completion: 23/08/1898; 10 knots; In Jan 1914, tonnage adjusted to 73.7 net tons.
On the 15/11/1915 the Hull steam trawler EDWARD B. CARGILL (H.412) foundered and was lost after detonating a mine off Spurn Point, North Sea.
CREW LOST ON EDWARD B. CARGILL (H412), struck mine off Spurn, 15th November, 1915.
BEECH, Walter (47), 24 Scarborough St, Hull. Chief Engineer
CROSS, John (52), 9 Seaton-ter, Walcott St, Hull. Cook
DONNISON, William (29), 46 Rugby St, Hull. Bosun
FIRTH, Arthur (21), 3 Newington st, Hawthorne Ave, Hull. Trimmer
HALL, Christopher (29), 10 Allison-ter, Walker St, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
HARBOARD, Albert (23), 4 Trent-ave, Eastbourn St, Hull. Sparehand
LYNN, Henry (-), Anlaby Park. Skipper
PETHERBRIDGE, Frank (29), 7 Somerset St, Hull. Mate
ROBINSON, William (21), Devonshire-villas, Wellsted St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
WILSON, Herbert (25), 13 Nellies-ter, Gillett St, Hull. Deckhand
