Williamson, James Henry

BORN HULL 21/05/1899. SON OF EDWARD & JANE WILLIAMSON, AT 139,  LONG WEST GATE, SCARBOROUGH. (1911 CENSUS)
TIMES 25/02/1920:- NORTH SEA TRAWLER MINED. – NINE LIVES LOST. – The Scarborough steam trawler STRATHORD, carrying a crew of nine, struck a mine on Monday night, and sank with all hands. The brother of the skipper was in command of another trawler which was fishing near by, and saw the STRATHORD blown up. The skipper of the STRATHORD, Samuel Normandale, was skipper of the steam trawler SCORPION in September, 1916, on the night that a German submarine sank 11 Scarborough trawlers, and his vessel was one of the few that managed to escape.
Scarborough Mercury 27/02/ 1920 – FAMILY’S TRAGIC LOSSES. – In the middle of so many bereavements the loss of one family, the Williamson’s, stands out as particularly tragic. One brother of H. C. Williamson, lost on the STRATHORD, was killed in action while a very young brother was the victim of a tragic accident on the face of the Castle Hill on Sunday evening of last summer when playing with other boys. He fell a great distance and died later at the hospital. A fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Williamson is critically ill in the Sanatorium. The bereaved father was on board the drifter TRYPHENA, on which vessel, is understood, the explosion was heard. Members of the families of the crew were on the piers most of the night anxiously hoping for news.
Several steam trawlers were lost along the Yorkshire Coast to mines after WW1 was over:- SAPPHIRE mined 19/02/1919; SCOTLAND lost 04/03/1919; EMULATOR lost 15/04/1919; STRATHORD lost 23/02/1920; CASORIA lost 26/02/1920 and TARANAKI lost 09/04/1920. Also, the Scarborough trawler JACK JOHNSON mined and lost off the Tyne 03/09/1920.