BORN HULL 15/03/1884. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ENLISTED ON 30/04/1898. SON OF WILLIAM CAREY (1855-1918) & ANN GALLANAGH (1861-1886), OF BLACK FARM, BUNORANA, DONEGAL, IRELAND. HIS FATHER HAD SERVED FOR 22 YEARS IN THE ROYAL MARINES ARTILLERY AND RETIRED TO IRLEAND WHEN DISCHARGED ON 11/09/1917. WILLIAM CAREY FOLLOWED HIS FATHER AND A […]
Fireman
BORN TIPPERARY, CORK 1878. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION, ON HULL SHIP "CALYPSO", ON 11/07/1916, AGED 38. HIS NAME IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. Calypso SS was a 2,876grt British Merchantship built in 1904 by Earle’s SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Hull and owned by T. Wilson, Sons & Co., Ltd., Hull . There was accommodation for […]
Able Seaman
BORN 1891 ISLANDMAGEE, CO. ANTRIM. SON OF ROBERT & MARY DONALD. ISLANDMAGEE. CO. ANTRIM. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION, ON 31/10/1916. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. 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 on 31 […]
Born Ireland, 1878. Son of Michael and Catherine Flavin, of Mayor's Walk, Waterford, Ireland. A former plumber and gas fitter. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers, in 1897. Served in the South African Campaign and four years in Egypt. Described as 5 foot, 7.5 inches tall, 130 lbs, 34- 37 chest expansion, hazel eyes, dark brown hair. He di […]
Able Seaman
BORN NEW ROSS, WEXFORD, 1864. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. CALYPSO SS was a 2,876grt British Merchantship 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 pass […]
BORN GALWAY, IRELAND, 21/09/1890. SON OF WILLIAM GLANVILLE (1865-1924) & BRIDGET DELIA O'MALLEY (1867-1904). SON OF A LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER. SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY AND ROYAL NAVY RESERVE. DIED OF FLU, ON 30/11/1918, AGED 29. BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY HE MARRIED ANNIE 0'DOWD, AT LIVERPOOL, IN 1915. HIS WIFE MRS ANNIE GLANVILLE, […]
Able Seaman
BORN WATERFORD 1899. LOST BY ENEMY ACTION. HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. 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 Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?141325
Able Seaman
BORN 1891 LARNE, COUNTY ANTRIM. SON OF MARY McCLEAN, OF LARNE. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. 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 a war loss. 29 crew. 1. BARTON, DAVID GEORGE (24), C […]
Sailor
BORN IRELAND, 1897. CO. MAYO. LOST AT SEA. HIS NAME IS LISTED IN THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY RECORDS. 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 […]
Able Seaman
BORN WATERFORD 1896. SON OF THOMAS & ROSE MARY IN WATERFORD. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and provisions to the Fleet, but was returning to Liverpool in ballast after having cal […]
BORN GLASGOW 1890. SON OF EMMA & JAMES THORNTON OF MILTOWN COTTAGE, WARRENPOINT, CO. DOWN. DROWNED IN BRISTOL CHANNEL. HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. SS Lavernock, built by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd., Newcastle in 1888 and owned at the time of her loss by Allen Adams & Co. Ltd., Cardiff (Southampton), was a British steam […]
Able Seaman
BORN WARREN POINT, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND 1880. SON OF JOHN WHITE & SARAH BROWN. WIFE ELLEN BRENNEN, AT 291 BURLINGTON STREET, SCOTLAND ROAD, LIVERPOOL. SUNK OFF SCOTLAND. LISTED ON HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH. The Romeo, J Neile, master, left Scapa on 23 February 1918 bound for Liverpool. She was on Admiralty charter for carrying meat and […]
