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Membland - a general history

Official No. 112422; Code Letters RVJL.

Owners: 1900 Pyman SS Co (G Pyman & Co) West Hartlepool; 1914 Macbeth & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1902 OH Bommen; 1903-11 AW Middleton; 1915 John Brotchie.

Membland left Hull at 8am on 15 February 1915 bound for the Tyne with a crew of 20 & a pilot & was not seen again. It was presumed she had struck a mine. She was posted with Lloyds as missing on 25 March 1915 but as the date of loss is uncertain it is given as 15 February 1915. 21 lives lost.

Lives lost February 1915:

Andersen, EE, fireman/trimmer, 31, b. Denmark, resided Hull

Bergs, Charles, seaman, 31, b. Sweden

Brotchie, John, master, St Aidans Rd. South Shields

Ellis, Leonard Joseph, ordinary seaman, 17, Bank Street, Hull

Finon, John, fireman/trimmer, 33, b. Plymouth

Freer, Thomas, able seaman, 51, Hull

Grant, Charles, steward, 46, b. Nairn, resided Ingleton, Yorks.

Guthrie, William, 1st engineer, 34, b. Kilmarnock

Husdell, Edward, 1st mate, 34, Tankerville Street, West Hartlepool

Jansson, John, fireman/trimmer, 31, b. Sweden

Johnsen, O, boatswain, 42, b. Denmark, resided Hull

Johnson, M, sailor, 30, b. Oslo

Mather, R, donkeyman, 45, b. Edinburgh

McDermott, William, sailor, 21, b. Leeds

Porbom, Wemer, seaman, 22, b. Stockholm, Sweden

Richards, Alfred, able seaman, 36, b. Whitstable

Smith, Alex, fireman/trimmer, 26, b. Warsaw

Tattersall, Richard, fireman/trimmer, 34, Hull

Taylor, Guy Harry, fireman/trimmer, 26, b. Texas, USA

Ware, Percy, 2nd mate, 26, Hull

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