BORN HULL 13/04/1891. LIVED ISLINGTON. FATHERHERBET JOHN HUGHES LIVED BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA. NAVAL RECORDS. MOTHER VIOLET SHARP.
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HMS Recruit, built by J. & G. Thomson, Ltd., Glasgow in 1896 and owned at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British destroyer of 335 tons. On May 1st, 1915, HMS Recruit was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-6 (Erich Haecker), 30 miles southwest of the Galloper lightvessel. 34 persons were lost. Allen Tony 22/08/2008 HMS Recruit, British, ´30-knotter´ class Destroyer. Torpedoed by the German submarine UB-6 off Galloper Light Vessel, North Sea, the torpedo explosion cut the vessel in half and she sank rapidly. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10813
