BORN HULL 1899. SON OF RUDOLF EMILE JOHANSON & KAREN (KARI) SIMONSEN JOHANSON. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN, LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS. SECOND MATE ON THE STEAM SHIP ‘JUPITER’. DROWNED ON 21/05/1917, AGED 18. HE IS LISTED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE NAVAL MEMORIAL.
Jupiter SS was a British Merchant Cargo steamer of 2,124grt built for Hessler Shipping Co. (Jacob Hessler & Co,), West Hartlepool by Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Greenock. In 1915 she was purchased by W. R. Bradley, Hull. She was powered by a triple expansion engine of 222nhp giving 10 knots. On the 21st May 1917 when on route from Dieppe for Manchester in ballast she was torpedoed by German submarine UB-40 and sunk when 15 miles west of Beachy Head, Sussex. 19 dead.
First name:
EDGAR HENRY
Regiment:
Rank:
2nd Hand
Date Died
21/05/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
18
