BORN NORMANTON, YORKSHIRE, 21/06/1887. LIVED SHOTLEY, SUFFOLK. PARENTS ALBERT HENRY & LOUISA ANN MOISEY ABOVE NAVY RECORDS. CWGC RECORDS THE 16/08/1915 AS THE DATE THAT HE DIED.
HMT Japan, built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby in 1904 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 205 tons. On August 16th, 1915, HMT Japan was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), off the Shipwash lightvessel. 5 persons were lost. Allen Tony 31/12/2010 HMT JAPAN was at sea with HMT Touchstone (FY46) on Monday 16th August 1915 and were clearing their sweeps that afternoon off the south end of the Shipwash Shoal when a mine was observed floating 30 yards away, foul of the sweep wire. At the time, the JAPAN was the winch boat, heaving in the sweep. The man who was attending the winch shouted to stop heaving, but before he was heard the mine was within three yards of the vessel. Steps were taken to ease the sweep out, causing the mine to submerge and drift beneath the trawler, and 10 seconds later the vessel blew up, killing Po T. Wooldridge; 2nd Hand J. Westcott; deck hands T. Richardson, C. Wing and H. Moisey. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?74353
