Olivemoor Gallery

This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.

Masters: 1899 J Flause: 1904 R Taylor: 1906 A Paterson: 1907-09 G Clark: 1915-16 JAD Stevenson: 1918 John Crockart:

Mereddio sailed from Quiberon, Bilbao on 10 January 1918 on a voyage for Glasgow & was not seen again.

Lives lost January 1918: Brown, Thomas, 1^st engineer, 42, b. Glasgow; Crockart, John, master, 41, Bidgend, Perth; Denham, Albert, wireless operator, 18, b. Hackney, resided Dalston, London; Garcia, F, sailor, 33, b. Spain; Hirase, H, fireman/trimmer, 32, b. Japan; Jolly, Alexander Christie, mate, 50, b. Arbroath; Kabichi, assistant steward, 22, b. Japan; Kiyama, K, carpenter, 29, Japan ; MacFarlane, Hugh, 2^nd mate, 27, b. Tarbert; MacLeod, Malcolm, leading seaman, 20, Lewis; Mito, T, fireman/trimmer, 31, b. Japan; Miyamato, K, fireman, 22, b. Japan; Murakami, K, fireman/trimmer, 28, b. Japan; Neill, William, 3^rd engineer, 30, Glasgow; Omato, K, able seaman, 34, b. Japan; Osada, Nisaku, donkeyman, 31, b. Japan; Otta, M, able seaman, 35, b. Japan; Randall Frederick Arthur, ordinary seaman, 18, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire; Shimya, Asa, steward, 41, b. Japan; Takeda, M, fireman/trimmer, 34, b. Japan; Tmai, T, able seaman, 24, b. Japan; Tokunaga, J, boatswain, 25, b. Japan; Uchimira, C, fireman/trimmer, 26, b. Japan; Wilson, James Thomas Craig, 2^nd engineer, 36, b. Bishopriggs, Glasgow; Yamaguchi, K, able seaman, 22, Japan; Yamato, S, able seaman, 23, Japan; Yesaki, ship’s cook, 38, Japan.