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ALBERT THORNTON
Northern Ireland BT34
BORN GLASGOW, 1890. SON OF EMMA & JAMES THORNTON, OF MILLTOWN COTTAGE, WARRENPOINT, COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND. DROWNED IN BRISTOL CHANNEL, ON 17/09/1918, AGED 28. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED ON THE HULL MERCHANT NAVY ROH.
SS Lavernock, built by Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd., Newcastle in 1888 and owned at the time of her loss by Allen Adams & Co. Ltd., Cardiff (Southampton), was a British steamer of 2406 tons. On September 17th, 1918, Lavernock, on a voyage from Bilbao to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore, was sunk by the German submarine UB-117 (Erwin Waßner), 5 miles SSW from Trevose Head.
Allen Tony 23/08/2007 LAVERNOCK was a 2,406grt, defensively-armed British Merchantship. On the 17th September 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk without warning 5 miles Sw from Trevose Head, Cornwall. 25 lives lost including Master. ref. used: Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10956
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