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Forestmoor
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Forestmoor | Moor Line Ltd. |
Fate
Torpedoed and sunk by UB-51 west of Gibraltar on September 5th, 1917. The ship was on a voyage from Huelva to Dublin with a cargo of copper ore.
Twenty two crew were lost including West Hartlepool-born Richard Coulson.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Alimoor, Thomas Robert; Best, Edgar; Caesar, Jonathan Cuthbert; Crawford, William; Davies, David James; Dyer, Arthur Ernest; Haley, Thomas Jeremiah; Ingleby, Ernest Clifford; Jenkins, Thomas; Lynch, Milton; Nilsson, Albert Edward; Owen, John Richard; Powell, James; Roberts, Robert Glyn; Rumbellow, F.J.; Shippey, Ernest Edward; Shorey, James; Simmons, William Robert; Vogan, Samuel; Williams, Charles Henry.
Related items :
Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
