Lewisham Gallery

This section will, in time, contain the stories of more than 450 merchant ships built or owned in the Hartlepools, and which were lost during the First World War. As an illustration of the truly global nature of shipbuilding, these ships were owned by companies from 22 different countries, including more than 30 sailing under the German flag at the outbreak of war.

Masters: 1898-99 m Scott: 1902 B Cobb: 1903-05 AJ Duff: 1906-08 A Mackenzie: 1909 J Seddon: 1915 JE Proctor.

Lives lost on 17 May 1917: Ali Ahmad, fireman/trimmer, India; Ali Saleh, fireman, India; Berkemeyer, Herman Bernhard Christiaan, mess room steward, 23, b. Paramaribo, Dutch West Indies; Cox, William Alfred, apprentice, 18, Durham St. Hull; Elias, L, engineer’s steward; Frambrana, P, sailor; Garcia, B, sailor; Goscomb, James, 1^st engineer, 47, b. Gloucester; Hollingshead, Haryy George, apprentice, 19, b. Grimsby; Johnson, George Edward, apprentice, 14, Newland, Hull; McIlroy, Henry, boatswain, 25, Belfast; Merritt, Gerald John, 2^nd mate, 21, b. Peckham, London; Morley, J, able seaman; Mosur, A, fireman/trimmer, India; Muhammad Ali, fireman/trimmer, India; Muhammad Ali, fireman/ trimmer, India; Newport, Alfred Thomas, able seaman, 35, Stourmouth; Patterson, Charles Rueben, apprentice, 19, Stanley St. Blyth, Northumberland; Persson, Edvin Napoleon, donkeyman, 36, Sweden; Rutledge, James Stewart, 2^nd engineer, 35, b. Dumfries; Said Bin Saleh, fireman/trimmer, India; Sheikh Ahmad, fireman/trimmer, India; Simms, Arthur C, 1^st mate, 26, Banbridge, County Down.