Daily Event for February 12


Feb. 12, 1916 on a voyage from Portsmouth to Cromarty the passenger-cargo ship Leicester hit a mine laid
by SMS UC-6 in the Strait of Dover. She was built in 1891 at Earl's Shipbuilding in Hull and was owned by the
Great Central Railway Company, but had been repositioned by the Admiralty in 1914 and was being used
as a stores carrier at the time of her loss. Seventeen crewmen were lost with the ship.

In a strange turn of events the commander of UC-6, Kapitänleutnant Matthias Graf von Schmettow, perished
over a year later only sixteen miles from where the Leicester went down when his UC-26 was rammed and
sunk by HMS Milne on May 8, 1917.

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Roll of Honour
In memory of those who lost their lives in SS Leicester
"As long as we embrace them in our memory, their spirit will always be with us"

Name
Rate
Barker, Fred
Fireman
Brumund, Gerhard F. W.
Cook
Charlton, Robert
1st Engineer
Cosman, Ernest
2nd Engineer
Cumblidge, John H.
Steward
Dales, Alfred
Able Seaman
Edmonds, George E.
Able Seaman
Goodey, Edward
Fireman
Hague, Ernest
2nd Mate
Harrington, George H.
Able Seaman
Hollingsworth, Arthur
Donkeyman
Hudson, Albert
Donkeyman
Larson, Charles B.
Mess Room Boy
Parker, Arthur
Fireman
Shepherd, Edward
Fireman
Smith, Harry C.
Fireman
Wringe, Arthur G.
Fireman


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