Johnson, John

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF MARY JANE JOHNSON AND GEORGE HALDENBY JOHNSON, AT 47 WALLIKER STREET, HULL. SECOND MATE, ON THE STEAM SHIP ‘KIRKHAM ABBEY’. LOST AT SEA, ON 27/07/1918, AGED 32. HE LEFT £124 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE HOLDENBY JOHNSON, A RETIRED TIMBER MEASURER, AT 7 LEE STREET, HULL (PROBATE ADDRESS). HE LEFT BROTHER, THOMAS BRINTON JOHNSON AND SISTER MINNIE BEST.
SS Kirkham Abbey, built by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1908 and owned at the time of her loss by Hull & Netherlands S.S. Co. Ltd. (J. H. N. Ringrose), Hull, was a British steamer of 1166 tons. On July 27th, 1918, Kirkham Abbey, on a voyage from Rotterdam to Hull with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine UB-40 (Hans Joachim Emsmann), 2 miles NExE of Winterton. 8 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS KIRKHAM ABBEY
JOHNSON, JOHN (32), Second Mate, Kirkham Abbey, Mercantile Marine, †27/07/1918, Son of George Haldenby and Mary Jane Johnson, of 7A, Lee St., Holderness Rd., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
TAYLOR, MINOR (34), Steward, S.S. Kirkham Abbey, Mercantile Marine, †27/07/1918, Son of the late Christopher and Margaret Taylor; husband of Jessie May Taylor (nee Lewis), of 6, Glaisdale, Goddard Avenue, Hull. Born at Southampton, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial


First name:
JOHN
Rank:
2nd Mate
Date Died
27/07/1918
Place died:
Sea
Age:
32
7 , LEE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK