BORN PETERBOROUGH, 15/03/1866. WIFE MARY HILLAM, LIVED AT 46 LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL. SKIPPER OF THE TRAWLER, “NUMITOR”, SUNK BY A MINE ON 20/04/1918. HE LEFT £230 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. THEIR SON, BOY 1ST CLASS, GEORGE HUGHES HILLAM, WAS LOST AT SEA, ON HMS “CORNWALLIS”, ON 25/04/1915, AGED 16
Numitor, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby in 1903 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy (RNR manned), was a Belgian trawler, used as a British navy trawler of 242 tons. On April 20th, 1918, Numitor was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-4 (Ernst Berlin), off Orfordness. 5 persons were lost.
1. BRUCE, JOHN , Engineman (no. 736ES), HMT Numitor, Royal Naval Reserve, †20/04/1918, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 2. GRAINGER, WILLIAM EDWARD , Trimmer (no. 1075TS), HMT Numitor, Royal Naval Reserve, †20/04/1918, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 3. HAYLES, ALBERT LAWRANCE (31), Deck Hand (no. 11905DA), HMT Numitor, Royal Naval Reserve, †20/04/1918, Son of Edward and Elizabeth Hayles, of 28, Castle Gate, Scarborough, Yorks, Memorial: Portsmouth Naval Memorial 4. HILLAM, GEORGE (52), Skipper, HMT Numitor, Royal Naval Reserve, †20/04/1918, Husband of Mary Hillam, of 46, Liverpool St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial 5. HODGSON, DANIEL (24), Deck Hand (no. 10533DA), HMT Numitor, Royal Naval Reserve, †20/04/1918, Husband of Elizabeth Watt Hodgson, of 161, High St. Gardenstown, Banffshire, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?70027
