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Boscastle

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1912 Boscastle Hatfield Steam Ship Co. Ltd.

Fate

The Hartlepool-built steamship Boscastle was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-111 (Hans Beyersdorff) off Strumble Head, Pembrokeshire, on 7th April, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Barry to Scapa Flow with a cargo of coal. Master Samuel Lewis.

Eighteen crew were lost including one from the Hartlepools:
Joseph Coates.

The other crewmen lost were:
Abdul Ali; Ahmad Husam; Ali Husam, Caleb, J.; Dryland, Alexander; Godfrey, Albert Edward; Hamilton, J.; Hingston, H.; Jones, Thomas; Lewis, Samuel; McLeod, Kenneth; Muhammad, M.; Owen, Cecil; Thomas, David; White, Harry Douglas; White, Leonard Stanley; Wyatt, Stafford John.

 

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