Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
James Robinson WILLING
Mercantile Marine
First Officer S.S. Lonada of London.
He was born at Sunderland and was the husband of Elizabeth Hannah Willing (nee Oliver) of 129 Canon Cockin Street, Sunderland. He was Initiated into 80 St John’s Lodge, Masonic Hall, Park Terrace Sunderland on 2nd September 1914 there is no record of any further Advancement. He died on the 29th December 1916 aged 49 and is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
The S.S. Lonada (1286 GRT) owned by the Port of London Authority was mined five miles N by E from Shipwash Lightship on a voyage from the Tyne to London with the loss of six lives.
Joanne Willing, great-great niece, has submitted photos of certificates which show James William Robinson as being qualified to fulfil the duties of First Mate of a Foreign-going Steamship in January 1894, and another showing him qualified to fulfil the same duties as Master dated Sept. 1897.
He is remembered in Sunderland on S140.048 on pages 163, 164 and 180, and on S140.056 and on our List of Ships’ crews
