LOST TRAWLERMAN OF HULL RECORDS.
BORN HULL 23/09/1881. WIFE MAY EMERSON LIVED ABOVE. NAVAL RECORDS. DRUMOAK FV (a 516) was a British Admiralty trawler of 208grt built in 1902 for the North of Scotland Steam Fishing, Aberdeen-reg A516. On the 14th August 1914 she was as minesweeper, unarmed, Admiralty No.342, Skipper Robert Smith Ellington Rnr. Believed mined and sunk. […]
BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED & LIVED IN ABERDEEN. SON OF JOHN DUFFUS & HELEN JANE (AKA NELLIE TURNERHARVEY, 2 GROSVENOR TERRACE, ABERDEEN. DIED OF WOUNDS.
Engineman
BORN HULL 4/12/1884. SON OF HERMAN TOBIESON & SARAH ANN LOFTUS. MARRIED HULL 1907 - WIFE ETHEL LIVED IN ABERDEEN. HULL HEROES WEBSITE. On October 13th, 1917, the British steam Yacht ASTER, left Aberdeen and was last seen on October 13th, 1917 and went missing. She was not heard of ever since. It is supposed she was mined on the 13th […]
A SCOTTISH CASUALTY BURIED IN HULL. GEORGE A. LYON WAS BORN ABERDEEN 1898. HE ENLISTED ABERDEEN. SERVED IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, DEFENDING THE HUMBER ESTUARY. HE DIED ON 01/03/1916, AGED 18 AND IS BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HE WAS THE SON OF JAMES & JANE LYON, OF HILLHEAND OF FENDRAUGHT, HUNTLY, ABERDEENSHIRE. (CWGC ADDRESS)
Wireless Operator
BORN ABERDEEN 1901. SON OF JOHN & ISABELLA LESLIE SIMPSON MUNDIE, OF ABERDEEN. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. SS Montebello, built by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Hull in 1911 and owned at the time of her loss by Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd., Hull, was a British steamer of 4324 tons. On […]
BORN HULL 13/10/1880. SON OF HENRY NOVELL (1840-1915) AND MARY SARAH GREGORY (1852-1918), OF 11 GLADSTONE TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS WIFE EMILY NEILSON AND TWO CHILDREN LIVED AT ISABELLA COTTAGE, CANAL STREET, MOUNT HOOLEY, ABERDEEN. SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY GUNNER. LOST WITH ALL HANDS (SOME 919 MEN) ON HMS "GOOD HOPE […]
Able Seaman
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF CHARLES WALLIS, ABERDEEN. REGISTERED WITH AUNTIE ELIZABETH HASTIE IN SCARBOROUGH AT 1901 CENSUS. Cruiser, built by Hall, Russell & Co. Ltd., Aberdeen in 1898 and owned at the time of her loss by T. Devlin Jr., Granton, was a British trawler of 146 tons. On May 2nd, 1915, Cruiser was sunk by gunfire by the Germ […]
