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15 February 1915 : Ship's Steward Charles Grant
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Charles Grant was born at Nairn, Inverness 9 August 1869 but was living in Ingleton, near Kirby Lonsdale, Yorkshire at the time of the War. Charles was the husband of Catherine Grant (née Campbell) He joined the Royal Navy in March 1885 on the HMS Impregnable and over the next 12 years served on various vessels including HMS Waterwitch, a surve...
Eton Street 'Shrine' in Hull and the loss of the Earl
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At the corner of Eton Street and Hessle Road in Hull stood until recently a branch of the Yorkshire Bank. As with most cities, the closure of bank branches has accelerated in recent years leading to further declines in local services. This is nothing new - this area of Hull has been subject to changes and ‘slum clearances’. It was during these...
The Sinking of the RMS Falaba, 28 March 1915.
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The RMS Falaba was sunk by a German submarine on 28 March 1915. This incident, and that of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania some weeks later, nearly brought the USA into the war in 1915. Above: The passenger steamer Falaba, sunk 28 March 1915, with the loss of 104 lives. Many were West African crewmen. Source: State Library of Victoria, Austral...
‘A Gallant Duel’ : SS Otaki and the Moewe
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During the war, the Germans used merchant ‘raider’ ships against Allied shipping. The Moewe (also known as Mowe) previously Pungo, built in 1915, was designed as a refrigerated ship, originally intended as a freight ship for the transportation of bananas from Togo to the German colonies in Africa. As the Moewe, she would become one of the most s...