BORN HULL, 09/11/1878. SON OF JOHN RICHARD MILLETT (1852-1886) AND SARAH BOSTOCK JARVIS (1855-1919). HIS MOTHER REMARRIED AND BECAME SARAH WALLACE, LIVING IN BRADFORD. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS AND A BROTHER, ARTHUR ERNEST MILLETT. A SEAMAN. HE SERVED ON THE TRAWLER ‘OTHELLO II’. LOST AT SEA, WITH NINE CREW, WHEN THEIR SHIP HIT A MINE ON 31/10/1915. HE WAS 36 YEARS OLD. HE HAD MARRIED ON 01/09/1901 AND LEFT WIDOW, FLORENCE WARD & THEIR SIX CHILDREN AT 93, FLINTON STREET, HULL (CWGC NAVAL ADDRESS). HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 96/11/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON HULL’S LIVERPOOL STREET SHRINE (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
HIS ONLY BROTHER, ARTHUR ERNEST MILLETT, WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER, MARRIED AND LIVING IN BRADFORD. ARTHUR SERVED WITH KING’S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS, FOR 14 YEARS AND WAS KILLED AT SALONIKA, ON 28/07/1918, AGED 32.
Othello II, built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Ltd., Beverley in 1907 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 206 tons.
On October 31st, 1915, Othello II was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), off Leathercoat. 9 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT OTHELLO II – 123
BALDRY, JOHN WILLIAM (29), Deck Hand (no. 7506DA), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of John William and Maria Baldry, of Grimsby; husband of Maria Baldry, of 63, Tiverton St., New Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
BUTT, FREDERICK JAMES (20), Ordinary Seaman (no. 1592/X), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Memorial: Dover (St. James’S) Cemetery
LOW, HENRY , Engineman (no. 2387ES), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Husband of Gertrude Low, of 14, Edinburgh St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
MCLACHLAN, DUNCAN CAMPBELL (37), Skipper, H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of Hugh and Agnes McLachlan. of Kinning Park, Glasgow; husband of Ruth McLachlan, of 4, Middleton Street, St. Thomas, Swansea, Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial
MILLETT, JOHN RICHARD , Second Hand (no. 1363S), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
RAMSTER, ARTHUR (21), Trimmer (no. 2246TS), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of William and Mary Elizabeth Ramster, of Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
WATSON, ALFRED HENRY (31), Engineman (no. 2390ES), HM. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of the late John Henry and Elizabeth Watson, of Hull; husband of Margaret Ann Watson, of 84, Eastbourne St., Hessle Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
WRIGHT, FREDERICK (17), Trimmer (no. 3530TS), H.M. Trawler Othello II, Royal Naval Reserve, †31/10/1915, Son of Clara Wright, of 130, Stanley St., Grimsby, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial.
