Photo Brian Chandler
In Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory of
Mother
Catherine Louisa Fortune
Died 27th Aug. 1918
Also her son
Herman Carl Schier (M.N.)
Died 20th Aug. 1917.
Herman Carl Schier is remembered in Victims of Piracy – Mercantile Marine Roll of Honour and on our List of Ships’ crews