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Joseph Anderson

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S.S. Warnow, image courtesy of Carl Racey

Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
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  • Service no: 82763
  • Rank: Master
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  • Regiment/Service: S.S. Warnow
  • Unit/Ship: Mercantile Marine
  • Place of Death: Lost at Sea
  • Age at Death: 45
  • Date of Death: 02/05/1917
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  • Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London
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Personal Information

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  • Address: Oakbank, Church Street, Broughty Ferry.
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  • Spouse:

    Mrs Frances Mary Anderson, 7 Campfield Road, and also of Oakbank, Church Street, Broughty Ferry.

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More about Joseph Anderson

Joseph Anderson was the husband of Mrs Frances Mary Anderson, 7 Campfield Road, and also of Oakbank, Church Street, Broughty Ferry. His ship, the Dundee registered SS Warnow, was on passage from Penarth, Wales with a cargo of railway material when she was sunk by UC-48, six miles west of Trevone Head, North Cornwall. In all, fourteen crew were lost in the sinking and Joseph Anderson’s name is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London. Mrs Anderson was left with three children.

WARNOW SS was a 1,593grt British Merchant Steamer built in 1883. Previously called John Redhead SS. On the 2nd May 1917 when on route from Penarth to an unknown destination with a cargo of railway material when she was torpedoed by German submarine UC-48 and sunk when 6 miles West from Trevose Head, North Cornwall. 14 lives lost including Master. Owned by J. Mitchell & Sons, Dundee. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?12272

Iain Stewart and Iain Birnie

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