BORN HULL 01/02/1892. SON OF THOMAS ROBB O’NEILL (1857-1926) AND MARY ANN DIXON (1858-1905), STEPSON OF EMMA O’NEILL, OF 11, GLADYS TERRACE. WALCOTT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SISTER MRS CLARKE LIVED AT 9, WELLSTED STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, (NAVAL RECORDS ADDRESS). HE DROWNED THE SUBMARINE E16. HIS BROTHER CHARLES ALSO SERVED AT SEA.
HMS E-16 was an E-class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness for the Royal Navy in 1915. E-16 was the first E-class submarine to sink a U-boat, U-6, 4 miles south-west of Karmøy island off Stavanger, Norway on 15 September 1915. E-16 was sunk by a mine in Heligoland Bight on 22 August 1916. She was last seen by E-38, 35 miles East from Yarmouth. There were no survivors. The wreck of HMS E-16 was discovered in July 2001, about 18 miles off Heligoland Island in 36 metres deep water. Claes Johnny 23/11/2007 The British submarine E-16 was last sighted thirty-five miles east of Yarmouth by HMS E-38. E-38 later observed a group of warships moving north, in the vicinity of Terschelling, Splashes were seen near to one of the warships which may have been depth charges exploding. Reports of enemy vessels attacking a periscope on the 22nd August may have been against E-16. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?16065
