Photo: Brian Chandler
Blaydon Courier 15/02/1919
Stoker 1st Class RN. K/3296
H.M.S. "Penarth"
4th February 1919 age 23
The Blaydon Courier 15/02/1919 carried a death notice.
HMS "Penarth" was a paddle steamer mine sweeper. On 4th February 1919 the vessel drifted into an uncleared minefield during a snowstorm and was destroyed. 37 of the crew survived and 40 lost their lives.
Stoker Lee is remembered in Allendale on A6.02 and in our List of Ships’ crews
Ryton & District War Memorials Project
The CWGC entry for Stoker Lee
