BORN HULL 14/11/1888. TRAWLER ENGINEER. SERVED WITH THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. LOST AT SEA, ON NEW YEARS EVE, 1915, AGED 26.
HIS WIFE MINNIE LIVED AT 91, CUMBERLAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 9, JOHN STREET, KINGSTON SQUARE, HULL. HIS PARENTS LIVED 117 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL.
HE IS ALSO LISTED AS KILLED, ON HULL’S ENGLISH STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 23 September 1916).
HMT Speeton, built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd., Selby in 1913 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British navy trawler of 205 tons. On December 31st, 1915, HMT Speeton was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-7 (Georg Haag), off Lowestoft. 11 persons were lost.
PEOPLE ON BOARD HMT ‘SPEETON’
1. GRAY, ALBERT , Deck Hand (no. 8816DA), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
2. GUMMETT, THOMAS EMANUEL (27), Deck Hand (no. 8404/DA), H.M.S. Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of John and Hannah Gummett, of North Shields; husband of Anne Amelia Ross (formerly Gummett, nee Stenhouse), of 20, Dockwray Square, North Shields, Memorial: Tynemouth (Preston) Cemetery
3. JONES, FRANCIS , Skipper, H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
4. LONGHORN, HERBERT , Engineman (no. 4105ES), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
5. NORVELL, GEORGE ROBERT (31), Skipper, H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of John George and Sarah Norvell, of North Shields; husband of Annie Norvell, of 20, Donkin Terrace, North Shields, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
6. SABBERTON, WILLIAM (49), Trimmer (no. 4218TS), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of Richard Sabberton, of Lowestoft, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
7. SAYERS, JAMES (19), Trimmer (no. 4227TS), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of Florence McBride (formerly Sayers), of 15 Victoria Avenue, Hawthorn Avenue, Hessle Rd., Hull, and the late James Sayers, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
8. STEAD, HAROLD ELLIOTT (23), Deck Hand (no. 8763DA), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of Sarah Ann Milner (formerly Stead), of 85 Ringrose St., Hawthorne Avenue, Anlaby Rd., Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
9. STRIDE, GEORGE , Deck Hand (no. 8726DA), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
10. WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES MATTHEW (26), Engineman (no. 4106ES), H.M. Trawler Speeton, Royal Naval Reserve, 31/12/1915, Son of William and Maria White, of 117, Woodcock St., Hull; husband of Minnie Sybil White, of 9, John St., Kingston Square, Hull, Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial
