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Cheviot Range

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner

1914 Cheviot Range Neptune S.N. Co.

Fate

The West Hartlepool-registered steamship Cheviot Range was sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U-102, (Kapitanleutnant Curt Beitzen), 25 miles off the Lizard, on February 21st, 1918.  The ship was on a voyage from Tuticorin, in south-west India, to the U.K. Master - Joseph William Manning.

Twenty seven lives were lost including one from the Hartlepools, 20-year old Apprentice Victor Maunder.
The other crew members lost were:
Anderson, James; Blenkinsop, Tom; Brereton, Ralph; Briggs, Alfred; Campbell, James; Cook, Sidney; Devine, Adam; Evans, David; Evans, David Harold; Frund, J; Fulthorp, Thomas; Gillespie, John; Gilmore, David Craigen; Hughes, Cadifor; Ife, George; Jones, William David; Manning, Joseph William; Nicholls, Stanley Claridge; Pattison, William Prudhoe; Swaddle, John George; Taylor, Robert; Thompson, W.; White, John; Williams, Ralph Shelper; Winton, Allan; Wright, Matthew Dent.

 

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