Lorle - a general history

Completed March 1896; Official No. 102744: Code Letters PGHN.

Owners: 1896 Trechmann Bros. West Hartlepool: 1897 Trechmann S.S. Co. Ltd. (Trechmann Bros), West Hartlepool: 1912 Capper Alexander & Co, London: 1915 Alexander Shipping Co. Ltd. (Capper Alexander & Co) London

Masters: 1896-1900 HJM Grahl: 1908-11 PA Eggert: 1915 FA Dinan: 1918 James Gray.

On a voyage from Bilbao to Heysham with a cargo of ore the defensively armed Lorle was torpedoed without warning by German submarine (UB-103 Paul Hundius) & sank 12 miles SSW of the Lizard, Cornwall in 49.47N/05.14W on 11 June 1918. 19 lives lost including the  Master, James Gray.

Lives lost June 1918:

Abdus Subhan, donkeyman, India

Beuzreu Chowmel, sailor, 23, b. Singapore

Churchill, John, fireman/trimmer, 29, Myrtle View, Liverpool

Clipp, Harry Martin, sailor, 22, b. British West Indies, resided Treforest, Glamorgan

Field, Francis Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 23, Liverpool

Fleming, William Robert, 1^st engineer, 55, b. Melbourne, Australia

Ford, William, fireman/trimmer, 24, b. Liverpool, resided Bootle

Geoghegan, Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 35, b. Dublin

Giblin, James Michael, able seaman, Tyneside

Gillen, Dominick, able seaman, 47, Sligo

Gray, James, master, 54, Kinghorn, Fifeshire

Jones, Arthur Theophilus Sumpton, 2^nd engineer, 50, Newport, Mon.

McDevitte, John, 2^nd officer, 35, b. Shrove, Co. Donegal

Medley, James, ship’s cook, 28, b. Dublin

Papadopolis, Jordanis, sailor, 35, b. Greece

Smith, John Sydie, 3^rd engineer, 28, b. Dundee

Smith, Thomas Stanley, wireless operator, 19, Cockermouth, Cumberland

Thomas, Henry Richard, 19, seaman, Nevin, Caernarvonshire

Tierney, Thomas Charles, fireman/trimmer, 19, b. Bootle

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