S.S Canonesa

[Katie]

Looking for information of the above which was torpedoed 1st May 1918. Tried all the google search , no luck. The reason I ask is one of the casualties James McKee Minshull was buried in Kirkdale Cemetery 16th July 1918 2 and a half months after his death. He is recorded on Tower Hill Memorial and in order for his correct details to be inserted on his entry they need evidence he is the same man who is buried in Kirkdale.

[dickiesam]

The same man?
Births Mar 1883: Minshull, James McKee - W. Derby 8b 473

GRO Death Index:
JAMES MCK MINSHULL
Birth year: 1882
Age: 36
Death Year/qtr: 1918 Sep
District: SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire
Volume: 2C
Page: 13

And very strange! The only vessel of that name is...
SS CANONESA [ID# 143660] registered Liverpool, 1920.
Owner: Houlder Brothers & Co Ltd, London
Builder: Workman, Clark & Co Ltd, Belfast
Completed: November 1920
Fate: Sunk on 21 September 1940. Torpedoed and sunk about 340 miles west of Bloody Foreland with the loss of one crew member.

There's an MN record for:
Richard JAMES MINSHULL
Occupation: Steward
Born: 18 - 08 - 1892
Birth place: Liverpool
Discharge number: 737090
Identity certificate number 861890
Next of kin: Mary Minshull [mother], 170 Walton Village, Liverpool.
Card type: CR10
Date range: 1918-1921; Series BT350

[Karen]

This seems to be the one - a steamer torpedoed 14 miles south of Worthing.

http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1089.html

[Karen]

According to the Tower Hill memorial, his parents were Joseph & Elizabeth Minshull:

1891 Census:
PIECE: 2970
FOLIO: 81
PAGE NUMBER: 25

1901 Census:
PIECE: 3458
FOLIO: 87
PAGE NUMBER: 40

[dickiesam]

This seems to be the one - a steamer torpedoed 14 miles south of Worthing.

http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/1089.html

Good find Karen. So the ship was damaged but not sunk! And she is missing from the http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/vesselsnum.php site.

[Katie]

Thanks for all the replies. IFTC cold will now be able to record his final resting place at Kirkdale Cemetery.