Register of Deceased Seamen

Extracts from Register of Deceased Seamen relating to the Orkneys 1911-1913

Extracted from the Registers of Deceased Seamen held in the special collections archive of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow.

This list is presented in date order but you can sort the table - ascending or descending - by any column by clicking on the relevant header.

Surname First Name Age Rank Birth Place Last Known Abode Date of Death Cause Place Ship Comments
Nicolson Geo. 39 AB Orkney 12 Portberry St., South Shields 02/07/1911 Heart disease Savona Hosp. Kinross
Ross Hugh 23 Carpenter Orkney Stromness 26/09/1911 Drowned Liverpool Princess Patricia
Corse J. W. 23 Sailor Orkney Sailors' North Shields 01/10/1911 Drowned North Sea Hatfield Vessel foundered
Linklater T.M. 60 Master Orkney 21 Thornwood Av., Glasgow 26/02/1912 Drowned
Erna ship missing
Skea Peter 50 Carpenter Orkney 17 Buchanan St., Leith 30/08/1912 Pneumonia Tromso Petunia
Harvey John Fraser 19 Apprentice Orkney Graham Place, Stromness 09/02/1913 Dysentery Brit. Hosp. Buenos Aires Ness
Muir Thomas 40 Fireman Orkney Kirkwall 06/05/1913 Drowned Bordeaux Boscastle
Craib John 41 Deckhand Orkney Findochty, Blantyre Place 25/05/1913 Cerebral Haemorrhage Lerwick Lizzie Flett
Cursator John 28 Deckhand Orkney S. Ronaldshay 10/06/1913 Drowned at sea Planet
Sinclair John 62 AB Orkney 4 Fort Pl., Leith 22/10/1913 Ruptured Intestines Neufahrwasser Coburg

 

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