{"id":24,"count":31,"description":"The Hull Memorial remembers the 1,200 sailors from Hull and abroad, who died during the First World War.\u00a0\u00a0\r\nThe ongoing peril of unexploded sea mines would claim the lives of Hull fisherman, long after the war had ended. For example, the Hull trawler \u2018<strong>Gitano<\/strong>\u2019 struck a mine and was sunk with all hands on the 23rd December 1918.\u00a0\r\nThe Hull trawler \u2019<strong>Scotland<\/strong>\u2019 struck a mine on the 13th March 1919, killing seven Hull men.\u00a0\r\nTwo days later the steam ship \u2018<strong>Durban<\/strong>\u2019 exploded\u2018, killing another eight Hull sailors. \r\n\u00a0The \u2018<strong>Isle of Man<\/strong>\u2019 (Hull) exploded on the 14th December 1919, killing seven Hull fishermen, and the steam ship \u2018<strong>Barbados<\/strong>\u2019 exploded on the 5th November 1920, taking another ten Hull men. These included the two Weaver brothers killed on the same day.\u00a0\r\nMany of these seaman had survived the war, only to be its victims after whilst trying to earn a living for their families. In all over 1,200 Hull men died at sea during the First World War and the majority have no known grave.\u00a0\r\nAnother tragedy was the loss of the fishing trawler \u2018<strong>Magneta<\/strong>\u2019 on the 31st January 1922, during the Russian Civil war. While being placed under false arrest, by the Russian authorities, the \u2018Magneta\u2019 was dragged into a port unsuitable for anchorage, and wrecked on a reef, during a hurricane. Nine Hull fishermen were lost. The arrest of the \u2018Magneta\u2019 became a major diplomatic incident and Russia finally paid some compensation in 1924. The nine Hull sailors from the \u2018Magneta\u2019 were buried at Murmansk by the Greek Orthodox Church. They are remembered on the Hull Memorial as one of the last casualties of war.\u00a0\u00a0","link":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/?cat=24","name":"Lost at Sea","slug":"lost-at-sea","taxonomy":"category","parent":7,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/7"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}