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Saxon

Names and owners

Year

Name

Owner
1881 Saxon Robinson & Rowland
1888 Saxon Robinson Bros.
1895 Saxon Maclay & McIntyre
1899 Saxon Glasgow Navigation Co. Ltd.
1915 Saxon Macbeth & Co. Ltd.
1916 Saxon Entente S.S. Co. Ltd.

Fate

The steamship Saxon was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-105, 83 miles east of Fair Isle, on May 7th, 1918. The ship was on a voyage from Odde, Denmark, to Leith with a cargo of carbide.

Twenty two crew were lost including two from the Hartlepools: 3rd Engineer Thomas Francis Robinson, and Steward Frederick English.

The other crewmen who lost their lives were: Adair, Frederick Joseph; Atkinson, Nicolas; Byron, Albert; Damase, Augustus; English, Frederick; Higgins, James; Hill, Harold Douglas; Horsman, Allan; Johnson, James; Johnson, Sam; Kooy, Thomas; Kvande, Charles; Leask, Geo Victor; Logan, William; McCarthy, James; Majambia, Josiah; Mohtar, Dick; Osmundsen, Ole Andreas; Richardson, Joseph Walter; Robinson, Thomas Francis; Rossiter, Robert Forrest; Whatton, Harry.

 

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