The SS Coath was one of our local fleets, owned by Bazeley andCo.
SS Coath
ON 86730 Iron screw steamer.
Built October 1882 by Workman Clark, Belfast as the SKERRYVORE for Clyde Shipping Co
994 grt; 225ft 6ins x 31ft x 15ft 6ins.
1901 Renamed SS COATH. Owners Bazeley and Co - Port of Registry : Penzance.
1909 14th July : Collided with and sank RN Submarine A9 off Plymouth. No casualties.
1916 12th December. 'Presumed sunk by a mine in the English Channel'.
Further information revealed that on 12th Dec 1916,
she was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel, off Beachy Head, 3 miles SW of Eastbourne,
by the German submarine UB 38, whilst on a voyage from Le Havre.
Reported to have been carrying guns and ammunition.
16 crew lost including the Master
Master Luke Spargo BERRYMAN
Able Seaman Thomas James COLTON
Able Seaman Thomas Frederick ENNIS
Fireman, Walter Edgar FOSKETT
Second Engineer Thomas FREETHY
Mate Griffith Evan HUGHES
Able Seaman Edward JOHNS
Ship's Cook Richard John Farley PARISH
Steward Bernard Osborne PARSONS
Donkeyman Bertie ROWE
Fireman Henry James SMITHERS
Able Seaman Sydney Doulton Percival SMYTH
Bosun Thomas Coalls STRIKE
First Engineer Richard Henry WILKINS
Fireman John Thomas Wallis WILLIAMS
Able Seaman William WROATH
Raymond Forward
