Lesreaulx Technical Specification

Masters: 1895-97 A Oatway; 1899 J Pawley; 1904 W Hughes; 1905-09 CD Pyves; 1916 Frederick W Thompson.

Bayreaux sailed from Cardiff on 20 October 1916 in ballast on a voyage for Montreal & was not heard from again. It was thought she struck a mine or was sunk by German submarine (possibly U-63 Otto Schultze) not long after leaving Cardiff. She was posted as missing on 14 February 1917. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists the following 30 names as having been lost;

Lives lost October 1916: Abdul Moin, fireman/trimmer, India; Ahmad Musa Ali, fireman/trimmer, India; Almeida, M, fireman/trimmer, 29, b. Cape Vincent, Cape Verde; Anderson, A, galley boy, 17, b. Argyllshire; Ashton, Reginald Henry, 3^rd mate, 19, b. Cardiff; Baxter, Charles Kinmond, 2^nd engineer, 47, b. Dundee; Brayshaw, J, mess room steward, 16, b. Hull; Cassimis, Anastassios Christon, able seaman, 33, b. Corfu; Chamis, George, boatswain, 37, b. Pireaus, resided Grangetown, Cardiff; Chavalanbos, M, sailor, 35, b. Lyra; Corbett, James William, 3^rd engineer, 24, Cardiff; Davies, Joseph, 1^st mate, 47, Newport, Monmouthshire; Dicks, HE, 2^nd steward, 16, Diana St. Cardiff; Fudge, James, donkeyman, 51, b. Somerset, resided South Shields; Higgins, J, sailor, 21, Cardiff; Holm, Martin, carpenter, 54, b. Holsten; Johanssen, A, able seaman, 47, b. Russia; Lagopolis, C, sailor, 26, b. Greece; Muhammad Akbar, fireman/trimmer, India; Muhammad C, fireman/trimmer, India; Piper, Thomas William David, ship’s cook, 18, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight; Portocolis, G, ordinary Seaman, 17, b. Greece; Said Muhammad, fireman/trimmer, India; Salam Ahmad, fireman/trimmer, India; Sell, EA, steward, 32, b. Chatham; Sullivan, Thomas, ordinary seaman, 15, b. Bantry; Thomas, Titus James, 2^nd mate, 26, Dinas Cross, Pembroke; Thompson, Frederick W, master, 31, Hinderwell, Yorkshire; Wali Hamid, fireman/trimmer, India; Williamson, Matthew John Hickson, 1^st engineer, 44, b. Walsall, resided Barry, Glamorgan; Zammitt, A, sailor, 51, Palmero.

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.

Steamship Lesreaulx.

Lesreaulx Yardbook pages.