Raps, N. Patrick

BORN COPENHAGEN 1876. HUSBAND OF FANNY RAPS, AT 6 SALISBURY TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL. SERVED AS A FIREMAN AND TRIMMER, ON THE CARGO SHIP, “SHIPCOTE”. LOST AT SEA ON 15/11/1915, AGED 39. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVY MEMORIAL, LONDON.

HIS NAME IS RECORDED AS LOST AT SEA, ON THE NORNABELL STREET SHRINE (Hull Daily Mail 08 November 1916)

On November 26th, 1915, the British cargo ship SHIPCOTE, left Archangel for Le Havre with a cargo of grain in bags, and went missing. She was not heard of ever since. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?203377


First name:
N Patrick
Rank:
Fireman
Date Died
13/11/1915
Place died:
Sea
Age:
39
6 SALISBURY TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK