Tag: ww1-1917-03-07

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07/03/1917 Sunk by U Boat Gun Fire 40 miles E S E of Auskerry Light House

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
LEBETER	SAMUEL	Unknown	08/03/1917	Apprentice	Vulcana

Vivanti built 1915 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for North Western Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby
03/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
07/03/1917 Skipper Thomas Henry Kay RNR 
Ordered to join another trawler off Royal Sovereign LV at dawn on the 8th last seen at 1930 on 07/03/1917
Foundered probably mined off Fairlight Hastings Sussex 1 officer 12 ratings lost no survivors

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
STAFFORD	ROBERT ERNEST	43	07/03/1917	Engineman	Vivanti
SIMPSON	CHARLES EDWARD	30	07/03/1917	Deck Hand	Vivanti
EVANS	CHARLES FREDERICK	17	07/03/1917	Deck Hand	Vivanti
SLEETH	JOHN FRANCIS	40	07/03/1917	Engineman	Vivanti
NORTON	FREDERICK	28	07/03/1917	Trimmer	Vivanti

Her Details are 

• Official Number 138951
• Yard Number 328 
• Admiralty Number FY 3264
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 226 NT 109
• Dimensions 177 x 22 x 12.7 
• Quarter deck 61
• Engines Amos & Smith 75 NHP 9 knots

07/03/1917 Foundered off Fairlight Hastings whilst in Admiralty Service

Undaunted Built 1899 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for the Grimsby Union Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby. 
03/1913 Sold to the Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
04/1913 Renamed Vulcana.
10/1914 Bought by J. E. Rushworth, Grimsby. 
01/1917 Sold to T. Langley, Grimsby. 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110881
• Yard Number 129 
• GT 219 NT 83 
• Dimensions 117.5 x 21.5 x 11.7 
• Quarter deck 47 Foc’sle 19   

Sunk by U-boat gunfire 40 miles off the Auskerry light house on the 07/03/1917

Built by Smiths Dock North Shields 1907 for J E Rushworth & R Atkinson of Grimsby
Registered 07/10/1907
11/1910 owned by T W Bascomb
08/1916 owned by J L Green
07/03/1917 Sunk by UC 73 commanded by Wilhelm Barten by Gun Fire 35 miles off North Ronaldshay whilst fishing – no reported casualties
Registry Closed 

Her Details are

• Official Number 125074
• Call Sign HLQK
• GT 267 NT 114
• Dimensions 125.3 x 22 x 12.1
• Quarter Deck 71′ Foc’sle 19′

07/03/1917 Sunk by U Boat 35 miles S by E of North Ronaldshay