Marchioness of Bute Voyage History

Masters: 1906-12 E Bride; 1913-14 JK Watson; 1915 JO Griffith; 1919 W Hughes; 1926 John HC Crocker.

Loyal Citizen left Baltimore on 8 September 1926 on a voyage for Rio Grande do Sul with a cargo of coal & a crew of 30. She sent wireless messages of distress from off the coast of Bermuda in 31.18N/67.00W on 14 September 1926 saying that the crew were about to leave in their lifeboats because their vessel had been badly damaged in a hurricane. The Dutch steamer Den Haag saw a lifeboat & wreckage in the vicinity of the missing ship. She was posted as missing in November 1926.

Lives lost 1926: Barraclough, F, second engineer, Withernsea; Blame, E; Boshier, John Cleaton, messroom boy, Cardiff; Clark, Arthur, apprentice, 16, Hull; Cobham, W, boatswain, Cardiff; Coker, J, Cardiff; Crocker, John HC, master, Portishead; English, B, first engineer, Falmouth; Gurley, T, able seaman, Cardiff; Forbes, Agnostinho, fireman/trimmer, Cardiff; Hahn, Robert, steward, Hull; Harrison, John (Jack), apprentice, 16, Hull; Harrison, Spencer Howe, fourth engineer, Cardiff; Hill, RS, first mate, Cardiff; Joseph, J, fireman/trimmer; Livingstone, Thomas Newham, 17, Scarborough; Martino, G, firman/trimmer, Barry; Matheson, A, carpenter; McIntosh, P, Cardiff; McKellar, M, able seaman, Hull; Mendi, Jacob, fireman/trimmer; Morgan, CE, third engineer; Plummer, John Kirby, apprentice, 17, Scarborough; Rainforth, RJ, second mate, Hull; Rawlins, John G, able seaman; Rodricke, J, Cardiff; Ryan, GH, 1^st wireless operator, Cardiff; Speechly, John Robert, cook, 38, Hull; West, Alf, able seaman, Hull; ? fireman/trimmer, Cardiff.