BORN HULL 1862. SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH & SARAH WESTOBY ABOVE. LOST AT SEA. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 03/01/1918. COMMEMORATED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON.
SS Polo, built by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1913 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman’s Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 1383 tons. On February 12th, 1918, Polo, on a voyage from Hull to Alexandria with a cargo of coal and general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine UB-57 (Johannes Lohs), 6 miles SExE of St. Catherine’s Point. 3 persons were lost. Allen Tony 29/10/2007 POLO SS was a 2,951grt defensively-armed British merchantship. On the 12th February 1918 when 6 miles Se by E from St Catherines, English Channel she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine UB-57. 3 lives lost. ref. used:www.uboat.net Jan Lettens 04/04/2013 UK hydro member ref. used:UK Hydrographic Office People on board People on board SS POLO123 1. CLARKE, CYRIL ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (17), Apprentice, SS Polo, Mercantile Marine, †02/02/1918, Son of Ernest Christmas Clarke and Harriet Ann Clarke, of 10, Vine St., Grantham, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 2. ROBINSON, ALFRED MONTAGUE (46), First Engineer, SS Polo, Mercantile Marine, †12/02/1918, Husband of Mary Hannah Robinson, of 12, Lister St., Hull. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial 3. SERGEANT, CHARLES WESTBY (48), Ship’s Cook, SS Polo, Mercantile Marine, †12/02/1918, Son of the late Joseph and Asenath Sergeant. Born at Hull, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?4626
