BORN LIVERPOOL 12/02/1870. SON OF MARY ANN STOBARD & RUBEN SENISCAL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1915. EDUCATED AT TRINITY HOUSE NAVIGATIONAL SCHOOL, HULL. SERVED WITH THE WILSON LINE HIS WHOLE CAREER TRADING WITH AMERICA. MARRIED AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH ON 25/12/1895. WIFE ELLEN (JEYNES) LIVED AT 89 , COLTMAN STREET, HULL.
HE WAS SUNK ON THE S/S ‘LEPANTO’, IN MARCH 1917 & RESCUED. HE DIED AT SEA, AS MASTER OF THE S/S ‘BIRUTA’, ON 06/08/1918, AGED 48. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH, BORN 8/02/1897. HE PROVIDED £230 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/08/1918. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE TRINITY HOUSE WW1 MEMORIAL. HE IS ALSO LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNEY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
Biruta SS was 1,733grt and a defensively-armed steamship built in 1889 by Palmer, Jarrow, England as the MARPESSA a British cargo steamer for J. , London. In 1911 she was renamed BIRUTA SS when purchased by P. Danneberg. On the 6 August 1918, 8 miles NW ¾ W from Calais, torpedoed or mined and sunk, 12 lives lost including Master.
PEOPLE ON BOARD SS BIRUTA123
HUDSON, FREDERICK (32), Second Engineer, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Husband of Elizabeth Caroline Hudson, of 95, Melrose St., Kingston-upon-Hull. Born at Grimsby, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
LEWIS, REGINALD GEORGE (14), Mess Room Boy, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Son of Martha Lewis, of 46, Vale St., Barry, Glam, and the late David Lewis, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
LIDDIATT, JOHN FREDERICK (17), Cabin Boy, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Son of Rose Alice Liddiatt (nee Short), of 43, Station St., Barry, Glam, and the late Gilbert Augustus Stanley Liddiatt. Born at Crewe, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
MANKTELOW, ALFRED JOHN (40), Ship’s Cook, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Husband of Anita Manktelow (formerly Dowle, nee Dunstan), of 74, Pearl St., Splott, Cardiff. Born in London, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
MOSS, EDWIN (21), Able Seaman, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Son of Amelia Wells (formerly Moss), of 490, Whamcliffe Gardens, St. John’s Wood, London. Born at Eastleigh, Hants, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
PETER, TOM , Fireman, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
ROWLEY, SAMUEL (59), Fireman, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rowley; husband of Margaret Jane Rowley (nee Sullivall), of 14, Foster St., Cadoxton, Barry, Glam. Born at Liverpool, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
SENISCAL, B (48), Master, Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Son of Mary and Rueben Seniscal; husband of Ellen Seniscal, of 89, Coltman St., Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
STAPLETON, PATRICK (50), Fireman, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Born at Glasgow, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
TERKMAN, EDWARD (40), Able Seaman, S.S. Biruta, Mercantile Marine, 06/08/1918, Born in Russia, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial
THOMAS, JAMES BIRD (50
