BORN HULL 18/2/1875. WIFE ELIZABETH JANE HEPWORTH, C/O MRS DAWSON ABOVE ADDRESS & ALSO LIVED AT 1 IVY TERRACE, SELBY STREET. HIS STEP SON CHARLIE BAILEY AND BROTHER IN LAW, JAMES WILLIAM HODGSON, (WASSAND STREET), WERE ALL LOST ON THE SAME SHIP, WHEN IT HIT A MINE. THE REST OF THE CREW WERE SAVED. THEIR DEATHS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER 1915.
HMT Scott, built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby in 1913 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 288 tons.
On October 22nd, 1915, HMT Scott was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-1 (Egon von Werner), off the Tongue lightvessel. 3 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT SCOTT123
BAILEY, CHARLES ROBERT , Trimmer (no. 2718TS), H.M. Trawler Scott, Royal Naval Reserve, †22/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HEPWORTH, JAMES , Engineman (no. 2723ES), H.M. Trawler Scott, Royal Naval Reserve, †22/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
HODGSON, JAMES WILLIAM (46), Deck Hand (no. 5139DA), H.M. Trawler Scott, Royal Naval Reserve, †22/10/1915, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, of Hull; husband of Harriet Hodgson, of 8, Scarborough St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
