BORN HULL 1865. HIS WIFE LIVED ABOVE. COMMEMORATED ON THE HESSLE ROAD, NAVAL MEMORIAL, HULL
Redcap, built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repg. Co. Ltd., Goole in 1907 and owned at the time of her loss by Kelsall Bros. & Beeching, Hull, was a British trawler of 199 tons. On March 1st, 1917, Redcap was sunk by the German submarine UC-29 (Ernst Rosenow), 97 miles east from Longstone. 1 person was lost.
At 6.50 a.m. on the 1st March, 1917, while the British trawler Redcap was hauling in her trawl, a U-boat appeared and fired several shells at her. One deckhand was killed, the mate had his leg blown off, and two other hands were injured. The survivors got away in their boat, and were picked up at 12.30 p.m. The trawler was sunk by the Germans.
ref. used: [1] Ajax, The German Pirate: His Methods and Record [2] Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org
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