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© Photo : Walter Edwin Frost REF CVA 447-4036
?Sweetest
Memory
of
Mary Wright
relict of John Scott
who passed away Sept. 16th 19?
also Walter John
only son of above
who died through enemy action Aug. 1st 1915
Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
Walter John SCOTT
Mercantile Marine Chief Officer S.S. Clintonia
He was the son of Mary Wright Scott of 6 Ocean View, Whitley Bay and the late John Scott. He was Initiated into 3217 John Readhead Lodge on the 17th May 1915 there is no record of any further Advancement. He was lost at Sea 1st August 1915 age 34 and is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
The S.S. Clintonia ship number 117975, built by William Doxford and Sons, Sunderland in 1907 (3830 grt) was a cargo ship owned by the Stag Line of North Shields.
At 03.58 hours on the 19th October 1940 the Clintonia [Master Thomas Hector Irvin] in convoy SC-7 was hit by one torpedo from the U-Boat U-99 [commanded by Fregattenkapitän Otto Kretschmer] about 200 miles west of St. Kilda. The vessel remained afloat and was sunk by gunfire from U-Boat U-123, commanded by Korvettenkapitän Karl-Heinz Moehle, at 05.04 hours.
One crew member was lost. The master, 33 crew members and one gunner were picked up by HMS Bluebell (K 80) (LtCdr R.E. Sherwood, RNR) and landed at Greenock.
Walter John Scott is remembered at Whitley Bay on W84.01, W84.02 and in W84.30, on page 22, also on our List of Ships’ crews
Crew list Index Project
S.S. Clintonia
The CWGC entry for Mate Scott
