Vauxhall Bridge

Masters: 1901-04 WJ Reeder: 1905-11 AW Robinson: 1913-15 J McLean: 1916-17 W Niven.

Lives lost April 1917: Alleyne, Henry, fireman/trimmer, 22, b. Barbados; Coker, John, ship’s cook, 27, b. Accra, resided West Ham, London; Colledge, John, 3^rd engineer, age 25, b. Tynemouth; Deane, Sidney James, ordinary seaman, 16, Bethnal Green, London; Dreinar, August, sailor, 44, b. Russia; Fownes, Edward William, 4^th engineer, 31, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne; Fraser, Robert Coutts, 1^st mate, 31, b. Shetland Isles; Harney, James, able seaman, 28, b. Waterford, resided Cardiff; Henseluck, Otto Gustav Robert (served as Smith) mess steward, 17, Whitechapel, London; Hough, John, able seaman, 39, b. Co. Clare, Ireland; Janson, August Ferdinand, fireman/trimmer, 36, b. Sweden, resided Newport, Mon.; Jones, Levy, fireman/trimmer, 19, Georgia, USA; Kershaw, Harry, ordinary seaman (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) 25, Sowerby Bridge, Yorks.; Kilcoyne, PJ, wireless operator; Matson, Emil, donkeyman, 52, b. Oslo, Norway; McGowan, John, chief boatswain, 58, b. Ballymullen, resided Clydebank, Dumbarton; McKall, Thomas, fireman/trimmer, 34, b. West Africa; Moore, E, fireman/trimmer, 22, b. Trinidad; Murray James, able seaman (Royal Naval Reserve) aged 39, 14 Bexley Terrace, Wick; Niven, W, master, 61, Liverpool; Nygren, W, sailor, 25, b. Russia; Osb.e, James, sailor, 25, b. Montserrat; Rozario, J, steward, India; Rytka, K, sailor/carpenter, 27, b. Finland ; Stroughair, Wilfred Wilson, 2^nd engineer, 24, b. Ryton, on, Tyne; Williams, Edward Nathaniel, fireman/trimmer, 25, Trinidad; Williams, James, fireman/trimmer, 24, b. Sierra Leone; Wright, John, able seaman, 29, b. Canada; Young, Thomas, 1^st engineer, 45, b. Blyth.

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.

A rather blurred image of the steamship Vauxhall Bridge.