SS "Cambric"
Son of the late Thomas Atkinson & Emily Elizabeth Arm Clifford;
husband of Sarah Eleanor Clifford (nee Langstaff), of Stirling St., Hull.
Born at Hull, (57)
The British steamship CAMBRIC SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria,
on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England,
with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed.
Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. [Allen Tony]
Master was Captain Alfred Reed Jackson (47)
Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?95434
Son of the late Thomas Atkinson & Emily Elizabeth Arm Clifford;
husband of Sarah Eleanor Clifford (nee Langstaff), of Stirling St., Hull.
Born at Hull, (57)
The British steamship CAMBRIC SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria,
on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England,
with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed.
Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. [Allen Tony]
Master was Captain Alfred Reed Jackson (47)
Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?95434
SS "Cambric"
Son of the late Thomas Atkinson & Emily Elizabeth Arm Clifford;
husband of Sarah Eleanor Clifford (nee Langstaff), of Stirling St., Hull.
Born at Hull, (57)
The British steamship CAMBRIC SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria,
on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England,
with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed.
Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. [Allen Tony]
Master was Captain Alfred Reed Jackson (47)
Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?95434
Son of the late Thomas Atkinson & Emily Elizabeth Arm Clifford;
husband of Sarah Eleanor Clifford (nee Langstaff), of Stirling St., Hull.
Born at Hull, (57)
The British steamship CAMBRIC SS was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-35 when 14 miles W. of Cape Shershel, Algeria,
on October 31st, 1917 when on route from Tunis for England,
with a cargo of iron ore. The captain and 23 of the crew were killed.
Four men were taken prisoner by the submarine. [Allen Tony]
Master was Captain Alfred Reed Jackson (47)
Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?95434
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