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From: "Tony Hinchliffe" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] HMS "Stephen Furness"
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 08:46:12 -0000
References: <014601c08d68$7afead80$2e437bd5@monica>


Hi Monica,
"Stephen Furness"-1712 gross tonnage.Built at West Hartlepool in 1910. Owned
by the Tyne-Tees Shipping Co.Ltd.King Street,Newcastle upon Tyne.Ship No.34
129,753
13.12.1917-Torpedoedand sunk in the Irish Sea west off the Isle of Man by
the German submarine UB64.Lost whilst on Government service employed as an
Armed Boarding Steamer.

My grandfather John O'Brien was transferred before the sinking only
to be torpedoed on another vessel.


UB 64 does not appear in "U Boats Destroyed" drawn heavily on German
sources. So presumably it survived the war.

Best wishes,
Tony Hinchliffe
----- Original Message -----
From: Monica Ryan <>
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Sent: 02 February 2001 22:34
Subject: [WW1] HMS "Stephen Furness"


> I am looking for information on the HMS "Stephen Furness". Was it a
> ship or a training establishment? Chief Petty Officer HENRY LOVEDAY
> died Thursday 13th December 1917. If it was a ship was this the day
> it sank?
>
> Monica Ryan
> Caterham, Surrey
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