BORN HULL 1895. SON OF PETER & AUGUSTA OAKTREE. LOST AT SEA, ON 18/10/1917, AGED 22. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR RECORDS.
SS Sten, built by Pearce Bros., Dundee in 1883 and owned at the time of her loss by The Shipping Controller (S. Marshall & Co., mgrs.), London. Sten SS was a 928grt British Merchant steamer. She was formerly called JANMAYN, AARVAK and JUANA MANCY. On the 18th October 1917 when on route from Barry to St. Malo with a cargo of coal when 5 miles North from Godrevy Lighthouse, Cornwall she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UC-64 and sunk. 9 lives lost including Master.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS STEN 123
ARTHUR, ROBERT BECKWITH (32), First Engineer, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Husband of Jennie Horsfield Arthur, of 139, Cairo St., Sunderland. Born at Sunderland, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
BROWN, JOHN (26), Fireman, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Born in New Calabar, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
DANIELS, JOSEPH (46), Fireman, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Born in Barbados, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
DAWSON, BENJAMIN , Master, Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Husband of Harriett Dawson, of 41, Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
DECHARES, M (37), Donkeyman, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Born in Philippines, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
GILL, GEORGE (24), Sailor, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Son of Cleaphas and Elizabeth Alice Gill; husband of Mary Jane Gill (nee Fifield), of 3, Quarella St., Cadoxton, Barry, Glam Born at Ystrad, (Rhondda), Glam, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
OAKTREE, FREDERICK (22), Able Seaman, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Son of Peter and Augusta Oaktree, of 3, Ryder’s Terrace, Strickland St., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
OWENS, EVAN (19), Sailor, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Son of John and Ida Annie Owens, of 62, Station St., Barry Dock, Glam. Born at Bryngwran, Anglesey, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
WILHELMSSON, AXEL T. (21), Sailor, S.S. Sten, Mercantile Marine, 18/10/1917, Son of Carolina Vilhelmina Eriksson, of Radmanso, Sweden. Born in Sweden, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial.
