In Harton Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of Chief Engineer Emerson Ruddock Salkeld, serving on S.S. Nevisbrook with the Mercantile Marine who died 23/08/1917.

The son of Joseph Chipchase Salkeld and Ann Isabella Salkeld and the husband of Ann Salmon Salkeld, of 116, Westoe Road, South Shields.

Dr Martin’s Home. Coroner’s Report Number 390 24th August 1917:
Emerson Ruddock Salkeld 45 Years. Seagoing Chief Engr. 118 Westoe Road, South Shields, died in Dr Martin’s Private House, Eslington Towers, Jesmond at 1 pm on 23rd August 1917.

Deceased died from blood poisoning from an abscess in the peritoneum of the bowels received when his ship the SS Nevisbrook was torpedoed by a German Submarine 100 miles off the Irish Coast on Friday 20th July 1917.

Emerson Ruddock Salkeld is remembered at South Shields on S86.102 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.