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From: "David Armstrong" <>
Subject: Re: [Orkney] Frank LONG death, Orphir 1915
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:16:06 +0800
References: <36f1s1hk43ea26mu9j069256bjfofrkdf3@4ax.com>


As a seaman in the Royal Navy (RN), his next of kin details would have been on file. The Fiscal obviously obtained them from the Navy.

Scapa Flow was a major base for the Royal Navy in both World Wars. Interestingly your transcription doesn't give a ship's name. Perhaps he was attached to the Lyness shore station which only closed in the 1950's.

I believe ships of the U.S. Navy that operated in European waters during the First World War were also based in Scapa Flow.

Regards

David Armstrong
Maylands, Western Australia
Researching Stewart, Baikie, Heddle,
Malcomson, Stout, Gray, Cromarty,
Oman, Anderson, Sutherland
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From: Greenwood
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Subject: [Orkney] Frank LONG death, Orphir 1915


Came across a drowning in the 1915 Deaths for Orphir. The deceased was
from England. No relation to this family, posting it for the unexpected
link to Hertfordshire. Not sure how parent's names were gotten if he
wasn't a local.....perhaps he was swept off an English ship in Scapa
Flow and had no links to Orkney at all. Meg Greenwood

Frank Edwin LONG, Able Seaman, R.N. Single./ died Sept 30 about 12:30pm
aged 22y at Scapa Flow. Usual residence Hawkswich Lodge, St Albans,
Herts. Parents were George Long, Cowman & Emma LONG ms CONSTABLE. Cause
was Accidental Drowning. Body not recovered. Registered on information
of James BEGG, Procurator Fiscal. Registered Oct 27 at Orphir, Thomas
Inkster, Registrar. There is an RCE notation in the margin - See Reg. of
Corr. Ents. Vol 1 p53, Oct 27, 1915.


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