Location: Tower Hill Naval Memorial, London, UK

BORN HULL 1886. SON OF HENRY N & ADDY BATEMAN, ADDRESS FROM 1891 CENSUS. SS Tycho, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 3216 tons. On May 20th, 1917, Tycho, on a voyage from Bombay to Hull with general cargo, […]

BORN HULL 1901. SON OF ALICE AND SAM WALMSLEY BATEMAN, OF 8 ASH GROVE, TUNIS STREET, HULL AND THIS NAVAL ADDRESS. SON OF A FRUIT MERCHANT'S CLERK. HE WAS BROTHER TO HUBERT AND LUCY. HE SERVED ON THE MERCHANT STEAMER, 'TORO' SUNK ON 12/04/1917. HE WAS AGED 15. SS Toro, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1904 […]

BORN GOOLE 1893. SON OF GEORGE HENRY & JANE ELIZABETH BATEMAN, OF GOOLE. HIS WIFE SOPHIA BURDEN, LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION, ON 02/05/1918, AGED 24. HE IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Unity, built by Murdoch & Murray, Port Glasgow in 1902 and owned at the time of her loss by Lancashire & […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF GEORGE AND MARY ANN BATTY, 5 CONSTABLE STREET, HESSLE ROAD. WAS A HORSE FARRIER AND ENGINE FITTER. ALSO SERVED WITH THE 2ND EYR AND NORTHUMBRIA RGA FROM 01/04/1908. MARRIED MAN, WIFE ANNIE & 3 SONS LIVING AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WAS MASTER OF THE STEAM TUG BUNTY LOST AT SEA, AGED 35. Bunty was a 73 GRT steam tug co […]

BORN HULL 1887. SON OF GEORGE & ALICE BAXTER. STRUCK MINE IN NORTH SEA. ALL CREW LOST, ON 09/03/1919. AGED 31 Built as the SCOTLAND for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Hull; Yard No 182; Launch Date: 17/03/1897; Lloyd´s Register 1918-19 No 758; In Jan 1919 sold to B. Knowles, Hull. The Hull trawler SCOTLAND (H348) sunk 15 miles […]

BORN LEITH 1875. SON OF ROBERT & ISABELLA C PATTERSON BAXTER. WIFE SUSAN LIVED AT 2, ST ANDREWS ROAD, LEITH, SCOTLAND. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON

BORN HULL 1868. SON OF GEORGE & ELIZABETH BEAL. WIFE ADA & SON BERNARD, LIVED AT 124 , WELBECK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). Adriatic SS was a British cargo steamer of 3,028grt that sailed from Newport for Marseille with coal (Admiralty charter) on the 31st October 1916 - missing, presumed war loss. 29 crew lost, including: […]

BORN HULL 1864. SON OF WILLIAM AND JANE BEALE, OF HULL. COMMEMORATED ON HULL'S HESSLE ROAD, NAVAL MEMORIAL. The Grimsby steam trawler MERCIA (GY1212) left her home port for the North Sea fishing grounds and was not heard of again. On 20/03/1915 posted missing:- Lost all hands. In the previous month sister-ship BERNICIA (GY1215) was also […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF ELLEN & THE LATE SAMUEL HENRY BEE. WIFE AMY (BILBROUGH) LIVED AT 6 THORESBY AVENUE, FLINTON STREET, HULL. Expedient, built by Mackie & Thomson, Govan in 1893 and owned at the time of her loss by Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co. Ltd., Hull, was a British trawler of 145 tons. On March 28th, 1917, Expedie […]

BORN HESSLE 1868. WIFE MRS BEACH ABOVE ADDRESS. CHIEF ENGINEER OF TRAWLERS. DROWNED ON 15.11/1915, AGED 47. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON 11/12/1915 AND THE HDM 18/11/1919. Built as the EDWARD B. CARGILL for Cargill Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull; Yard No 206; Date of completion: 23/08/1898; 10 knots; In Jan 1914, tonnage adj […]

BORN HULL 1890. WIFE MRS BELL ABOVE. NAVAL RECORDS. ALL HANDS LOST. On 17/05/1915 the Hull steam trawler MAURITIUS (H547) was posted missing:- Lost with all hands whilst fishing in the North Sea. CREW LOST ON MAURITIUS (H547), missing in the North Sea, presumed to be enemy action, 17th May, 1915. BASSETT, David (22), 5 Filey-grove, Gille […]

BORN NEWPORT, 1898. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS.

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH & ELIZABETH BENSON. LOST ON THE FISHING VESSEL 'ST LAWRENCE', 03/10/1914, AGED 25 On September 30th, 1914, the British steel trawler ST. LAWRENCE departed Iceland for Hull with fish and went missing with all on board. She was not heard of ever since. Believed to have struck a mine; PEOPLE ON BOA […]

BORN NEW YORK, USA 1871. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. CALYPSO SS was a 2,876grt British Merchant ship built in 1904 by Earle’s Sb. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for 57-1st, 44-2nd and 863-3rd class passenge […]

BORN LEEDS 1898. ELDEST SON OF THOMAS & MAUDE ISABEL ABOVE. LEFT SISTERS & BROTHERS. HE HAD BEEN AWAY ON A FIVE MONTH VOYAGE WHEN HIS SHIP WAS TOPEDOED NEAR TO HOME. HE DIED AT SEA, AGED 18. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 31ST MAY 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * SS Tycho, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Eng. […]

BORN BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, 1890. SON OF LATE EDWARD BIGGADIKE & CHARLOTTE ANN SCOTT. AN ABLE SEAMAN. MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1913. HUSBAND OF ROSE TEMPKINS (1891-1972), OF 40, PARROTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) & 3, HERON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, MEMORIAL, BOULEVARD, HULL. Jaffa SS was […]

BORN HULL 1897. SECOND SON OF JAMES & EMILY ANN BILLANY, AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. A FORMER SAW MILL WORKER. ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. LOST AT SEA 10/03/1917, AGED 19. HIS ELDER BROTHER JAMES HENRY BILLANY ALSO DIED AT SEA ON 14/10/1917. S.S. Polandia was built at Hamburg in 1898 by Blohm & Voss […]

BORN HULL 1893. SON OF JAMES & EMILY ANN BILLANY ABOVE ADDRESS (1911 CENSUS). ONE OF NINE CHILDREN. MARRIED ST PERTERS, CHURCH, LIVERPOOL, ON 06/08/1917. HIS WIFE BERTHA READE, CAME FROM WARRINGTON. EMPLOYED AS A FITTER APPRENTICE.HE WAS THIRD ENGINEER ON A SHIP FROM LIVERPOOL. DIED AT SEA, 14/10/1917, AGED 23. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT […]

BORN HULL 1884. SON OF GEORGE HENRY BISHOP (1851-1921) & ELIZA JANE BISHOP (1855-1941), OF 69 OSBORNE STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. SON OF A MASTER MARINER. HE MARRIED EDITH ANNIE SNOWDEN (1892-1971), AT HULL IN JUNE 1915. THEY LIVED AT 27 BRIDLINGTON STREET, FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL, WITH THEIR TWO SONS, ARTHUR KENNETH BISHOP (191 […]

The British steamship Cambric SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria, on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England, with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed. Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. PEOPLE ON BOARD SS CAMBRIC ABDUL MUHA […]