Part of the
Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
12th
December 1917
INDEX PAGE
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The events are
being researched from original documents.
It will be November
2008 before they will be written and completed.
Royal Navy Ships
HMS PARTRIDGE & HMS PELLEW
HMS ROSALIND
Armed Trawlers
COMMANDER FULLERTON, LIVINGSTONE, TOKIO & LORD
ALVERSTONE
and Merchant Ships
PETER WILLEMOES (Danish 1,825 tons) & NIKE (Swedish 1,834 tons)
CORDOVA (British 2,284 tons), BOLLSTA (Norwegian 1,701 tons),
KONG MAGNUS (Norwegian 1,101 tons), MARACAIBO (Danish
(525 tons),
BOTHNIA (Swedish
1,723 tons) and TORLEIF (Swedish 867 tons)
and
HMS WOLVERINE & HMS ROSEMARY
The Events
North Sea Irish Coast
The Ships
Royal Navy Trawlers
Merchant Ships German Navy
The Men
Including Trawlers
AMADAVAT and BELUGA
Including HMS
PELLEW, HMS WOLVERINE
Casualty List Merchant &
Fishing
CORDOVA, Trawlers
RANTER and JOHN M SMART
Prisoner of War List for SS
CORDOVA
Stoker 1st Class GEORGE COOK;
309277, H.M.S. Partridge : Messina Medal.
A photograph of him and his fellow crew
members.
On the same day SS HALIFAX was lost.
Two other ships were lost to enemy action
SS LEONATUS (ex SCARSDALE) built 1903; 2099 tons;
was on voyage from Swansea to Lerwick, with a cargo of
coal,
but was torpedoed by UC40 near Kirkabister Lighthouse.
SS CHARLESTON built 1908; 1866 tons;
was on voyage Cardiff to Berehaven, with a cargo of coal,
but she was captured by UB 65 and was
sunk with bombs in St George’s Channel, St Smalls;
two gunners were taken prisoner.
UB 65 in 1918 sunk herself with one of her own torpedoes.
SS NYANZA (Greenock)
[P&O] built 1907; 6,695, tons
was attacked by submarines between the 9th and
12th December 1917 in the English Channel,
resulting in the death of NATHTHU KARIMUDDIN, Fireman, Indian Merchant
Service
BOMBAY 1914-1918 MEMORIAL, India
Raymond
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