On Tower Hill Memorial is the name of Master Thomas Storm, serving on S.S. Prunelle with the Mercantile Marine who died 22/08/1918.

The son of Rueben and Mary Storm, of Sandsend, Whitby, Yorkshire and the husband of Hannah Margaret Storm, of 65, Alwinton Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.

W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland offers the following:

The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records, Commonwealth War Graves Commission and data in respect of merchant ship losses during the First World War

240 St Hilda’s Lodge
Year of Warrant 1780
Freemasons Hall, South Shields

Thomas STORM
Mercantile Marine Master SS Prunelle

A Mariner he was Initiated on the 11th May 1908; Passed 17th June 1908 and Raised on the 10th August 1908.

He died on the 22nd August 1918 aged 51. Remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.

The SS Prunelle (578 GRT) managed by H.W. and C.M. Ezard of Goole was torpedoed by the German U Boat UB-112 two miles SE from Blyth on a voyage from London to Dundee with the loss of twelve lives.

Thomas Storm is remembered at South Shields on S86.054 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.