BORN HULL 1880. WIFE KATHERINE STAINTON – 3 WELLINGTON STREET, NORTH SHIELDS. IS DEATH IS RECORDED ON THE HULL HEROES WEB SITE. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROLL OF HONOUR. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, LONDON.
SS Hilda Lea, built by Wilton’s Engineering & Slipway Co., Rotterdam in 1916 and operated at the time of her loss by The Shipping Controller (J. Cormack & Co.), London, was a British steamer of 1328 tons. On December 23rd, 1917, Hilda Lea, on a voyage from Blyth to Rouen with a cargo of coal, was sunk by the German submarine UB-35 (Karl Stöter), 24 miles SxE from St Catherine’s Point. 1 person was lost. Allen Tony 20/02/2008 HILDA LEA SS was a 1,328grt defensively-armed British merchant steamer. On the 23rd December 1917 when on route from St. Helens for Roen with a cargo of 1,720 tons of coal and when 24 miles S by E from St Catherines, Isle of Wight, Uk when she was torpedoed without warning by German submarine UB-35 and sunk. 1 life lost. ref. used:Wendes David, South Coast Shipwrecks
People on board SS HILDA LEA123 1. STAINTON, JAMES ALFRED (36), Donkeyman, SS Hilda Lea, Mercantile Marine, †23/12/1917, Husband of Katherine Stainton, of 3, Wellington St., North Shields. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial ref. used: Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?122844
