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Fmn. Cornelius Collins
Mercantile Marine S.S. Barrowmore
from:Jarrow
(d.19th February 1918)
Cornelius Collins served as Kelly with the Mercantile Marine on the S.S. Barrowmore of Liverpool. He died aged 19 when the ship was torpedoed without warning and sunk by a submarine off Bishop Rock. Son of Francis and Elizabeth Collins of 4 Quay Corner Jarrow, Cornelius Collins is listed as age 12 at School living with his parents Francis and Elizabeth Collins and family at Quay Corner, East Ferry, Jarrow on the 1911 census.