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Princess Dagmar
Names and owners
Year |
Name |
Owner |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Princess Dagmar | M. Langlands & Sons |
Fate
The steamship Princess Dagmar was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-54 in the Bristol Channel on May 7th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Swansea to France with a cargo of coal.
All 22 crew were lost including Charles Johnson, Seaman, of West Hartlepool.
The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Angus, William; Bishop, Thomas J.; Cubbon, Thomas James; Hansen, Johan Gustav Berg; Hayton, Herbert; Hughes, Thomas; Johnson, Victor; Jones, William; Kemp, William; Killey, Philip Edward; MacInnes, Neil; McMillan, Archibald; Mayhew, Robert; Meredith, David Austen; Moore, Thomas Arthur; Murray, John William; Sayle, Hugh Quane; Souter, James John; Stove, William Charles; Tanner, David Marla; Watterson, Jas Henry.
Related items :
Hartlepool Crew Losses - First World War
