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BORN HULL 1853. SON OF ROBERT & VIOLET BARTLETT. (HDM 06/03/1916). HE MARRIED LOUISA KITCHING, IN 1873. LIVED AT 39 EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL AND AT THIS ADDRESS. HE LOST HIS LIFE ON THE EVE OF HIS RETIREMENT AFTER 50 YEARS AT SEA, WHEN HIS STEAMER COLLIDED WITH ANOTHER. OUT OF A CREW OF 23, ONLY SEVEN SURVIVED. ALL OFFICERS, INCLUDING […]

BORN HULL 1885. YOUNGEST SON OF CAPTAIN, ROBERT BARTLETT & LOUISA BARTLETT, OF LORNE HOUSE, ST HILDA STREET, HULL. SERVED AS THIRD ENGINEER ON THE WILSON LINE, 'SAPPHO'. LOST IN DECEMBER 1915 AGED 30. HE LEFT SISTER ALICE BARTLETT AT 38 EDGECUMBE STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER ALSO DIED AT SEA IN 1917. THE BARTLETT FAMILY GRAVE LIES IN THE […]

BORN HULL 05/03/1898. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM DOVE OF 21 CRANBOURNE STREET, HULL. listed on the PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, HAMPSHIRE, UK The HMS Hampshire was a armoured battle cruiser of the Devonshire class built for the Royal Navy. She was constructed at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent and commissioned in 1905 at a cost of around £900.000 […]